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On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 07:20 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> On 9/17/15 7:05 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 06:57:08 -0400 |
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> > "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > Totally rethink the idea of emails aliases as something that is |
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> > > created on the fly. We just need to know who should get emails for a |
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> > > package when it comes to bug reports. Why can't that be calculated |
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> > > on the fly from the metadata.xml? |
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> > I've not read every last part of this thread but I think I like where |
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> > this is going. I just want to be sure that people besides those in the |
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> > Java herd/project/whatever can continue to receive emails for |
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> > java@g.o. For instance, gnu_andrew is not a dev and does not |
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> > intend to be but he still likes to be CC'd on all Java mail. I would |
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> > not like to have to add his address to the metadata.xml of every Java |
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> > package. |
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> Yes. If the metadata.xml contained both and |
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> tags, it would go to all of java@g.o and to gnu_andrew. Already |
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> not all are devs. |
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> To further address mgorny's objections, that's what bug-wranglers are |
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> doing now. I can see even automating the bug-wrangler step of assigning |
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> bugs. A python script could parse the bug title for a package name, |
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> obtain the metadata.xml, assign the bug to 1) project first, else |
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> maintainer by order, 2) cc the rest. bugzilla would then send out the |
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> emails. |
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Your proposal kills at least one project's workflow. |
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The gnome team uses gnome@g.o email alias |
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(1) to subscribe the whole project (including people who don't have a |
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gentoo.org email but are working on the overlay) to *upstream* bug |
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trackers such as gnome, freedesktop, and webkit bugzillas; |
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(2) for communication within the team (since it's proven impractical to |
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get everybody on irc at the same time); |
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(3) as a method by which other people can contact the whole project. |
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And of course for consistency, it's expected that gentoo bugs assigned |
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to gnome@g.o will get sent to the same list of people. |
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So we really do require our email alias with a list of subscribers both |
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within and outside gentoo. Not some dynamically-created thing that's |
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specific to just gentoo bugzilla and needs metadata.xml. |
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