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Patrick Lauer posted on Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:09:13 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> Maybe we could add a "Assign to maintainer(s)" button visible only to |
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> certain groups of users, so that a bugwrangler who decides this bug is |
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> valid just has to hit one button instead of figuring out the details of |
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> assignment? |
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> There seems to be valid criticism about fully automating the workflow, |
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> but partial automation can still save huge amounts of time ... |
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Talking about which, I've toyed with asking for bug-assignment privileges |
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for awhile, but haven't known who to ask, or if the privilege model is |
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fine grained enough to give me that without giving me stuff I probably |
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shouldn't have. |
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Such a button that could be made available to selected users, or even in |
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general, since we already trust users with setting CC, adding archs, and |
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even (controversially) with setting importance. Arguably, even making |
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this button available to all users would be but a small extension from |
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that. |
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Meanwhile, lately I've started ccing the maintainer, based on equery |
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meta's results for the package. So far for this try I've had good |
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results and faster bug resolution as I effectively bypassed wrangling, |
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but awhile back I tried that on a bug and when wranglers did assign, they |
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didn't take the CC out so the dev was getting two notices on changes and |
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was a bit cranky about that. So I make it a point to mention the CC now, |
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so hopefully if a wrangler gets to it before the CCed dev, they can unCC |
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at the same time they assign. |
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Too bad most of the components aren't fine grained enough to do direct |
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assignment, as they do for kde and (IIRC) portage bugs, for instance. I |
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always thought gentoo's bz organization there was buggy, as it made a lot |
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more sense to me to have say applications or libraries at the product |
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level, and the cat/pkg at the component level, or even category as the |
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product and package as the component. But it was already too late to |
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change that when I became a gentooer in 2004, let alone now. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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