<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Apr 2021, 6:04 am Nate Graham, <<a href="mailto:nate@kde.org">nate@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 4/12/21 11:56 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote:<br>
> There isn't an exact threshold.<br>
> <br>
> The issue is that email providers (such as Google, Outlook.com - <br>
> Microsoft, Yahoo and GMX) keep track of email servers sending patterns.<br>
> Should we deviate from these patterns, then their systems will <br>
> automatically impose restrictions - including at times totally refusing <br>
> to accept further email.<br>
> <br>
> It can also impact on decisions made by their spam filters, which can <br>
> lead to legitimate email going to spam folders and therefore being <br>
> missed by people. Depending on the age of the bug, it may also lead to <br>
> people marking email as spam - which will have an negative impact on the <br>
> reputation metrics they maintain, and increase the long term risk of <br>
> email going to the spam folder.<br>
> <br>
> This impacts on much more than just Bugzilla, as all KDE.org <br>
> "transactional" email is sent through one server - so a block against <br>
> Bugzilla will also block email from Identity, Gitlab and Phabricator <br>
> among others.<br>
> <br>
> It also has spillover implications to our mailing lists (which use a <br>
> separate server for handling their email) as all actions that take place <br>
> on Bugzilla lead to an email being sent to the <a href="mailto:kde-bugs-dist@kde.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kde-bugs-dist@kde.org</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:kde-bugs-dist@kde.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kde-bugs-dist@kde.org</a>> mailing list. Consequently, it will also <br>
> knock out delivery for those providers used by people subscribed to that <br>
> list.<br>
> <br>
> When we have had these incidents in the past it has sometimes taken <br>
> several days for the mail queue to drain for all of the involved <br>
> providers and for email delivery behaviour to totally return to normal. <br>
> This was very frustrating for the affected contributors at the time, and <br>
> there was nothing we could do for them except wait - and is therefore <br>
> something we should avoid.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the explanation. Can I ask you to do your magic to silently <br>
move all bugs in the Klipper product to the Plasmashell | Clipboard <br>
component? Looks like it's about 100 bugs.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We certainly can look into getting that actioned. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can you please file a ticket for this? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Given how recent this thread is I'd also like to see a little bit more time given to allow for those who might have been away over the last 12-24 hours a chance to respond. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers, </div><div dir="auto">Ben</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Nate<br>
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