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From: Christian Ruppert <idl0r@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion to ask devs to change their bugzilla name when becoming "devaway"
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:39:30
Message-Id: 4C116978.7090208@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion to ask devs to change their bugzilla name when becoming "devaway" by Pacho Ramos
1 On 06/10/2010 07:07 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > Hello
3 >
4 > Currently, we only need to set a proper message in ~/.away (as talked in
5 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/devaway.xml ) when
6 > becoming "devaway". The problem is that a lot of our users don't know
7 > about that devaway list and, then, they will still open bug reports and
8 > complaint when their reports get stalled due maintainer not being
9 > available.
10 >
11 > My suggestion (until http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256934 is
12 > solved) is to add a new step to "how to use the Devaway System"
13 > instructions asking people to also change their bugzilla name appending
14 > "(Devaway)", for example:
15 >
16 > "Pacho Ramos" would be changed to "Pacho Ramos (Deavaway)"
17 >
18 > Then, people could simply search "devaway" in google and would get
19 > proper information (gentoo devway page is the first shown)
20 >
21 > Thanks
22
23 The devaway status/links are planned for bugzilla-3.
24
25 --
26 Regards,
27 Christian Ruppert
28 Gentoo Linux Developer and Bugzilla Admin
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