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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Karl Fogel<karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> I didn't know about the expensive/useless import problem -- it's a
>> shame that a failure report wouldn't catch those. Still, I think that
>> it's still a good idea to remove the approval process, even before we
>> have a failure report web page or add svn repo heuristics. There are
>> costs, but the benefit seems worth it.
>
> +1.
>
> If a vcs import produces no useful result, we'll hear about it if anyone
> tries to use it; and if no one is trying to use it, then who cares?
>
> Also, failures that we hear about from users will motivate us (or even
> the users?) to set up the reporting system.  We should consider that an
> eventual consequence of automatic approval, rather than a prerequisite.
>

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-code/+bug/418932

Not assigned to anyone.

jml