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On 05/25/2010 02:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 18 May 2010 02:02:01 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>> could you please help the poor bug wranglers a bit?! The queue has reached |
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>> 170 unassigned bugs... |
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> people dont seem to realize that bug-wranglers isnt just for re-assigning to |
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> the proper maintainer. they are supposed to be doing basic triage, user |
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> feedback, as well as cleaning up the bug. i shouldnt be seeing bugs assigned |
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> to maintainers that have "${PN}-1.ebuild" as their subject, nor bugs that lack |
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> basic things like `emerge --info` or build logs. |
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As long as the status quo works I don't think we need to change it. |
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However if we are running into issues with keeping up it might make |
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sense to just have wranglers do assignments to maintainers and let the |
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maintainers deal with the rest. |
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The reason is that the maintainer might be able to spot dups much more |
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readily, or spot obvious solutions to bugs, where a wrangler might be |
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hunting around. |
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By all means wranglers should do what they can when they can, but keep |
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in mind that if you yell at a wrangler any time they "do it wrong" a |
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natural response of devs will be to not bother with bug wrangling or |
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just looking for their own bugs in the list. |
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I'm not necessarily proposing any changes here, but in general we need |
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to be careful about barriers to entry in projects that are undermanned. |
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Rich |