Re: controlling how long before archiving?

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Eli,

> In short, my experience is that this "archiving" feature has only
> downsides.  If its only purpose is to prevent spam, then cannot we
> prevent it by other means?  GNU mailing lists reject spam quite
> efficiently, so why cannot something similar be in place for debbugs?

It has also the feature to restrict the number of bugs for a given
search. You can choose to search in the recent bugs database, in the
archived bugs database, or in both. This is an advantage. The Debian
people haven't added this feature w/o a reason.

> In any case, I'd support enlarging the time for archiving and
> collecting data about any increase in spam.  If spam indeed increases
> dramatically, then we know we must do something about it; otherwise we
> can stay with a larger archiving delay.

If we agree to enlarge the 28 days period, we could do it on
debbugs.gnu.org. Felix and I shall be able to change the value, and to
trace it in the git repo of "our changes".

> HTH

Best regards, Michael.