Proposal: move Klipper | Plasma Applet bugs into Plasmashell product

[Nate Graham]

On 4/12/21 11:56 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> There isn't an exact threshold.
> 
> The issue is that email providers (such as Google, Outlook.com - 
> Microsoft, Yahoo and GMX) keep track of email servers sending patterns.
> Should we deviate from these patterns, then their systems will 
> automatically impose restrictions - including at times totally refusing 
> to accept further email.
> 
> It can also impact on decisions made by their spam filters, which can 
> lead to legitimate email going to spam folders and therefore being 
> missed by people. Depending on the age of the bug, it may also lead to 
> people marking email as spam - which will have an negative impact on the 
> reputation metrics they maintain, and increase the long term risk of 
> email going to the spam folder.
> 
> This impacts on much more than just Bugzilla, as all KDE.org 
> "transactional" email is sent through one server - so a block against 
> Bugzilla will also block email from Identity, Gitlab and Phabricator 
> among others.
> 
> It also has spillover implications to our mailing lists (which use a 
> separate server for handling their email) as all actions that take place 
> on Bugzilla lead to an email being sent to the kde-bugs-dist at kde.org 
> <mailto:kde-bugs-dist at kde.org> mailing list. Consequently, it will also 
> knock out delivery for those providers used by people subscribed to that 
> list.
> 
> When we have had these incidents in the past it has sometimes taken 
> several days for the mail queue to drain for all of the involved 
> providers and for email delivery behaviour to totally return to normal. 
> This was very frustrating for the affected contributors at the time, and 
> there was nothing we could do for them except wait - and is therefore 
> something we should avoid.

Thanks for the explanation. Can I ask you to do your magic to silently 
move all bugs in the Klipper product to the Plasmashell | Clipboard 
component? Looks like it's about 100 bugs.

Nate