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On 05/28/2015 08:03 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On 26 May 2015 18:07, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> Dnia 2015-05-26, o godz. 09:59:50 Thomas Kahle: |
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>>> I maintain a game (games-strategy/freeotion) aside from the games herd. |
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>>> When users report bugs, they choose the "Games" component and then bugs |
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>>> get auto-assigned to the games alias. This is also the recommended |
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>>> procedure: |
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>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Project:Games |
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>>> |
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>>> Given our games maintenance rules this seems wrong. Shouldn't games |
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>>> bugs be wrangled based on metadata like other bugs? |
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>>> I understand that changing this behaviour would create a lot of useless |
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>>> bugwrangling work... so maybe there is a different solution? |
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>> I'd say we should reset the default assignee to wranglers. This is once |
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>> again a relict of treating games special for no good reason. |
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> might want to cut out the editorialing. there's very good reasons for it: |
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> - there's a games component that users have historically rarely used incorrectly |
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> (e.g. filing non-games related bugs under it, and filing games bugs under |
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> something else) |
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People have frequently filed incorrect bugs, especially regarding |
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overlays like gamerlay. You probably haven't noticed though. |
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> - historically there have been very few people outside of the games herd that |
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> maintained games packages, and even then, the bug should be assigned to games |
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> and the maintainers cc-ed. |
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Since the games lead is inactive, this is not even true anymore. It |
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becomes more common to maintain games packages outside of the games |
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herd, especially since the council does support this. |
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