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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> said: |
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> So this is now the third revision of this proposal. |
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> The first two editions are available here. |
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> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/48485 |
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> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/49601 |
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> Comments are welcome, as are offers to implement it. |
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> Implementations should be a small python or perl script that take a |
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> single CP atom an resolve it to an assignee, along with one or more CC |
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> entries. They may assume that an rsync tree exists at $PORTDIR (not |
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> /usr/portage, but $PORTDIR). Additional data files are welcome as well |
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> for special assignment rules. |
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My main question to this entire proposal is do we actually want to give |
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bugs that possibly have no useful information to maintainers? No script |
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will be able to replace people looking at a bug and trying to get the |
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user to supply information that will be useful for the maintainer of a |
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package. The whole goal of the bug-wranglers project should be to |
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provide bugs to maintainers that they can actually do something with |
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when they receive them. (Yes yes, you can say that this doesn't happen |
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all the time today, and you would probably be right, but that doesn't |
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mean we can't fix that problem. A dedicated group of people that follow |
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guidelines that we set up for bug-wrangling should improve the quality |
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of bugs going to maintainers.) Also, does anyone know of any other open |
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source project that does automatic assignment like this? I'd be |
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interested to see how they implemented it and how it works for them. |
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Maybe no one else agrees with me, but I think auto-assignment might make |
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more work for people that don't want to deal with bugs that say: |
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"sys-devel/gcc is br0ken!!!" and provide nothing useful to help us |
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figure out the problem. Its a good idea, but since our users don't |
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always provide useful reports, it seems like we are just shifting work |
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around. |
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Just my 2 cents, |
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Mark Loeser |
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email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org |
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email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com |
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web - http://www.halcy0n.com |