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

[Britton Smith]

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
>
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> 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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