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[Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 21:32 +1200, Tim Penhey wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:17:09 Graham Binns wrote:
> > On 12 April 2010 10:13, William Grant <wgrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> > > Soyuz uses ~janitor to close bugs. See
> > > lp.soyuz.scripts.processaccepted.close_bugs_for_sourcepackagerelease.
> > 
> > The janitor could be used but I'd be inclined to use something else.
> > The use of the janitor suggests that the work is being done as a
> > cleanup operation (so it's appropriate for Soyuz because the janitor
> > is cleaning up after a package release). For the branch scanner,
> > though, the branches are in active development, so I think it's more
> > meaningful to have a branch scanner celebrity.
> 
> The Janitor is someone who cleans up after you.  Perhaps it is cleaning up 
> before you realised that you've left a mess?

mpt suggested that we rename the janitor to something very generic like
robot so that that it could be used in many processes. I prefer
Launchpad Agent.

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