linux-kernel - Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues"

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Message-ID: <20221002192146.03993bb2@yoga.local.home>
Date:   Sun, 2 Oct 2022 19:21:46 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     "Artem S. Tashkinov" <aros@....com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        workflows@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "regressions@...ts.linux.dev" <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        ksummit@...ts.linux.dev,
        Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
Subject: Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla
 blues"

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 00:04:25 +0100
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> And you keep moving along the same track - the usual reaction of some
> company after having pulled back a bloody stump and enjoyed the pile of
> explanations of the reasons why opt-out is *NOT* *ACCEPTABLE*, *EVER*
> is along the lines of "OK, we'll just spam everyone in our database once
> and ask them to opt-in - that must be OK, right?"

But a single spam that can be ignored is so much better than being
automatically added to something that you have to do work to get out of.

We get spammed a lot to participate in surveys and such. But for those one time
emails, they never bothered me. Sometimes, I actually do participate.

-- Steve