<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 10, 2017, at 8:38 PM, Martin Panter <<a href="mailto:vadmium+py@gmail.com" class="">vadmium+py@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 10, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:brett@python.org" class="">brett@python.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">Is the mention bot helpful? (Our config is at<br class=""><a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/.mention-bot" class="">https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/.mention-bot</a> and the docs are<br class="">at <a href="https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot" class="">https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot</a>)<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">On 11 March 2017 at 00:32, Donald Stufft <<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io" class="">donald@stufft.io</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I’ve found it helpful thus far. It’s poked me on a few issues and I jumped<br class="">in and gave a review on them. There is too much churn in python/cpython for<br class="">me to get notified of every issue. I suspect as we get more people<br class="">submitting PRs (and thus, retaining author) it will get more diverse in who<br class="">it notifies as well.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I dislike it. At the moment I have the Git Hub repository blocked, but<br class="">this means I can’t even subscribe myself to interesting threads any<br class="">more. I think there were way too many useless emails (lacking context,<br class="">uninteresting to me, etc). It is automated spam.<br class=""><br class="">I encourage you to remove it, or at least make it opt-in. Perhaps you<br class="">can encourage contributors to look themselves at the “experts” list,<br class="">history of the relevant code, or whatever, to find potential people to<br class="">invite to a Git Hub discussion.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>You know you can tell it not to message you?</div><br class=""><div class="">
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