[yt-dev] Fwd: ALERT/APOLOGY: Milestone changes on BB Issues

[Cameron Hummels]

Agreed.  We'll talk to the larger group of devs for future decisions like
this.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I largely think this is good idea, but there should have been some
> opportunity for discussion that included people not at the workshop.  I
> hope the workshop is very productive, but let's try to be cautious of
> making quick, unilateral course changes.
>
> Britton
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius.kk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> for all those people that enforced "From: Cameron -> /dev/null" due to
>> recent spambomb, I'm forwarding the email shedding some light on what
>> happened. I'm partial responsible for it too, since it was I who
>> suggested to use "Milestone" keyword on bb's issue tracker.
>> Sorry for that!
>> Cheers,
>> Kacper
>>
>>
>> es on BB Issues
>> To: yt-dev at lists.spacepope.org
>>
>>
>> Everyone:
>>
>> Several of the developers at the yt workshop are reclassifying the
>> bitbucket issues to better "tag" them for future handling.  We decided to
>> use the "Milestone" field as a way of triaging these into several
>> categories:  easy, moderate, difficult, longterm, and waiting for future
>> development.  As part of this, we (I) made the dubious decision to remove
>> the previous numbered milestones because they were redundant with version
>> as we had been using them.  This has resulted in a HUGE number of emails
>> to
>> the list for all of the milestone modifications, which you have
>> undoubtedly
>> received.  For that I want to personally apologize, since we were unaware
>> this would be the behavior even on closed tickets.
>>
>> I hope these new milestones will be useful in the future, and again I'm
>> sorry for all of the spam.
>>
>> Cameron
>>
>> --
>> Cameron Hummels
>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>> Steward Observatory
>> University of Arizona
>> http://chummels.org
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cameron Hummels
>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>> Steward Observatory
>> University of Arizona
>> http://chummels.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Cameron Hummels
Postdoctoral Researcher
Steward Observatory
University of Arizona
http://chummels.org
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