Hundreds of bugzilla mails on one day

[drago01]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> It has happened again. :-/
>
> | This message is a notice that Fedora 19 is now at end of life. Fedora
> | has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 19. It is
> | Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no
> | longer maintained.
> |
> | [...]
>
> As I found it odd, that again I would receive so many bz mails for old
> tickets, initially I had started taking a look at some, but there are too
> many packaging issues where the packagers don't respond because they
> dislike Fedora's packaging guidelines.
>
> It's not managable for me to revisit them all. I also cannot jump in and
> take over work, such as resolving implicit conflicts between packages.
>
> Especially for implicit conflicts, a reminder:
>
>   Implicit conflicts are _nasty_ and so far are not detected by package
>   tools prior to the transaction check. What does that mean? Dependency
>   solving and downloading of possibly huge packages will be done without
>   indicating a problem, only to fail before installing the packages. All
>   the user then can do is to try excluding a package somehow, which may be
>   difficult if it's pulled in as a dependency.
>
> I've also noticed a few version upgrade requests with no response from
> the package maintainer -> potentially unmaintained Fedora packages.
>
> This is not encouraging.

Yeah I just delete those mails now days. Its just spam "F19 is EOL" is
not news that I need to get 1000 times.