Comment 11 for bug 567004

On 28 April 2010 08:38, William Grant <email address hidden> wrote:
> Why should API clients be discriminated against? Not all API
> applications are batch operations, and some batch API applications make
> changes that are not minor. Discriminating against applications simply
> because they use the API is *completely wrong*.

"discriminated" is a somewhat overloaded word. I think Launchpad can
useful allow users to discriminate (eg through mail filters.)

I think asking human users whether a change is a minor change (as
wikipedia does) is unlikely to be super useful because humans are
inconsistent.

For api-driven changes it is more reasonable to expect that at least
any particular program will consistently set metadata like this. When
feed-pqm queues a proposal, it could mark that change precedence=bulk
and then users can opt in or out of getting mail about that, either
through their own filters or eventually through a notification
manager.
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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>