Avoiding conditioning ignorance towards AutoQA

[Tim Niemueller]

On 28.04.2011 18:59, Tim Flink wrote:
> On 04/28/2011 02:00 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
>>> Keeping the current way will just make me (and possibly others)
>>> add filters to throw away messages from AutoQA. Please be aware of
>>> how much contributor time you waste by making them hope through
>>> useless (because the tests have passed and no information is
>>> gained) mails. I realize you want to improve things, but at the
>>> current stage its consuming the most valuable resource we have,
>>> packager/developer time.
>>
>> We will certainly improve that. But for the near future I don't see
>> much ways to change the notification system (using Bodhi comments).
>> We can either have it the way it is or disable it completely (we
>> can't use opting in/out, we must operate on all updates or none of
>> them).
>>
>> I believe the current state is good enough to have AutoQA comments
>> enabled, even though it's not perfect. You may disagree. If many
>> maintainers claim they would rather have AutoQA completely disabled,
>> we can do it. But the current state helps us fix the tests
>> tremendously. In the mean time, we work on improving the AutoQA
>> architecture.
>>
>> As a simple workaround for you (and maybe for some others), why don't
>> you define a simple mail filter that detects an AutoQA Bodhi comment
>> and marks it as read if it contains PASSED comment? That will save
>> you from wasting time reading them.
>>
>> Another option is to work with Bodhi authors to implement your ideas.
>> It will be great if you do.
> 
> To add a little more detail, we are working on this [1], but I don't
> think that any fix will make it into the production systems for at least
> a week or two.
> 
> Until that happens, the best workaround that we can suggest is to use an
> email filter like Kamil suggested.
> 
> Again, thanks for your feedback and patience.

Thanks for taking this into consideration and starting work on it, it's
really appreciated and at least in my case will help to raise acceptance
and willingness to accept AutoQA.

	Tim

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