Re: Remove me from the buildbot mailing list

[Christian Grothoff]

Dear Yujiri,

I am very sorry for this, the big problem is that somehow the buildbot
tries to figure out who made changes to the Git for the notification
based on the commits --- and (often/sometimes/always?) gets this totally
wrong.

So far, we have been unable to teach it how to correctly identify the
'blame list'. That's only a partial excuse, the other one is that I was
not aware it was badly spamming even casual/history contributors (I
thought it was just not "narrow enough", not "bothers contributors that
contributed a long time ago").

As this is not a regular mailinglist (we didn't explicitly subscribe you
-- Buildbot by default (badly) scrapes the Git history), we cannot
simply "unsubscribe" you either. Hence, the only option I see right now
is to simply disable the notification feature entirely --- or at least
until someone can figure out how to fix it...

Again, sorry for the bother, and I'll look into this _next_.

Happy hacking!

Christian

On 10/22/21 11:14 PM, Yujiri wrote:
> Buildbot has been spamming me with build failure emails ever since the 
> documentation-only patch I submitted weeks ago. The content of the emails 
> doesn't suggest any way to unsubscribe. I don't want to block sender because 
> this is a project whose goals I adore and I hope to contribute more in the 
> future, but I need these unsolicited irrelevant emails to stop, and it 
> reflects poorly on the project that I was added to this list automatically 
> with no obvious way to unsubscribe.
>