[python-committers] Spurious bugs.p.o messages

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/31/2017 8:20 PM, Ezio Melotti wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> On 3/31/2017 6:08 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 at 12:37 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:victor.stinner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     2017-03-31 20:30 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org
>>>     <mailto:antoine at python.org>>:
>>>     > Just a heads up that the following PR:
>>>     > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/552/files
>>>     > has generated a lot of spurious PR additions on bugs.python.org
>>>     <http://bugs.python.org>,
>>>     > probably because that PR references a lot of issues
>>>     > (example: https://bugs.python.org/issue23839).
>>>     >
>>>     > Perhaps it would be nice to have an upper limit on the number of
>>>     > notified issues when the PR mentions several of them?
>>>     >
>>>     > (I'm sure someone more active than me, such as Victor or Serhiy,
>>>     got *a
>>>     > lot* of notifications from that PR :-))
>>>
>>>     Hello, I got 110 emails, something goes wrong? :-)
>>
>>
>> Each link generated an email with a message like
>> "pull_requests: +994" but with a different number.
>>
>
> The range should be from pull_request826 to pull_request1113.
> I tried to unlink a PR from the admin but it still generated an email.
> I'm not aware of any method to unlink them without generating emails,
> so If you don't mind another wave of emails, I can write a script to
> go through them and unlink them from the issues, otherwise I'll just

I already unlinked for https://bugs.python.org/issue25464, and it did 
generate a message.  I would rather delete another 20 emails than leave 
the junk.