Bug#476536: grub-pc: allow update-grub to do not generate single-user entry if not desired

[Robert Millan]

Hi Lubomir,

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:04:26PM +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> Mailing lists certainly don't scale well for patches and many people.
> GRUB has a bugtracker on Savannah -- shouldn't that one be used?

Yes, but the developers tend to lurk on grub-devel instead.  I think it's
more effective.

> > Unfortunately, opening it to non-subscribers results in tons of spam coming to
> > the list, which makes it unusable.
> 
> Ever heard of moderated lists? (Surely moderation usually takes a lot of
> word, so I mostly flush all messages pending moderation for some time.
> Exception is when I am notified that a message from non-subscriber is
> coming via BTS or IRC. This would be exactly that case.

Let's say I think moderated lists are fine as long as I'm not the one who's
gonna moderate them ;-)

> GRUB upstream would have to reconsider the way they accept patches [...]

I keep thinking the same.  Not my decision though.

-- 
Robert Millan

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