[gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

[Ryan Hill]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:26:46 +0200
Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:

> On 03/12/2010 09:18 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > There seems to be two different schools on who to assign a keywording
> > bug with only a single arch. I have myself assigned it to the arch in
> > question but there's a difference of opinion here:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272160#c5
> > Let's get agreed on a single approach and I will add a note here:
> > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html
> > I naturally support the approach I have been doing as I think the arch
> > team is the one in charge.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Petteri
> >
>
> So let's summarize for assigning to the single arch:
>
> Against (and my comments on why they don't apply):
>  - Comments would only go to arch team after resolving:
>   * maintainer is still in Cc or Reporter
>  - Arch teams not in charge of fixing problems
>   * If problems come up they deserve a new bug as a dependency
>   * one bug per issue and a stabilization bug is about stabilization
>  - Maintainer being able to decide when to go stable
>   * Bug wranglers should still assign to maintainers for their ack
>   * The maintainer assigns it to the arch team
>
> In support (and my comments in support):
>  - Can be used as a gentle reminder for slacker arches
>  - The arch teams are actually ones doing the work to resolve the bug
>   * As they are the ones to mark it as resolved it makes sense for them
>     to be the assignees
>
> So based on this I propose that I will write this down in appropriate
> places in to our documentation and commit a week from now. Please object
> if you don't agree and we can discuss some more.

You ignored my point about this being completely moot once we start using
flags in bugzilla for arch teams.  We'll have to change the policy then
to the maintainer being the assignee anyways.


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