RFC: Changing Bugzilla updates at release time

[Sam James]

Hi!

This came out of some discussion with Arsen and prompted by some other
comments on IRC.

At the moment, during release time, maintainer-scripts/branch_changer.py
is run by release managers and causes a large amount of bugmail to be
sent both to CCs/assignees but also to the gcc-bugs ML. The activity
comes from the RM's personal account. In the past, I've missed real
activity on bugs (including a question to me) as well as some other
email drowned out in the notification emails.

What do people think about possibly having a special 'GCC releases'
account which only the RMs have an API key to, possibly suppresses
sending email to begin with, and is ignored by gcc-bugs? It would allow
easier filtering out of the mail.

(I'm familiar enough with BZ to say it should be trivially doable, with
the exception of suppressing *sending* the mail to begin with, which I'd
have to investigate.)

thanks,
sam
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