[gentoo-dev] robo-stable bugs

[Jeroen Roovers]

Private messages and public comments through bugzilla are so far
ignored, it seems, so let's try a venue where it's sure to cause a
flamewar instead. My apologies for the inconvenience.

On Sat, 18 May 2013 21:08:53 +0000
bugzilla-daemon@g.o wrote:

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>             Bug ID: 470392
>            Summary: Please stabilize =dev-libs/libconfig-1.4.9-r1

We agreed a little while ago that bug Summaries should start with an
atom, if possible, and explain the action later. Also, robotically
filing thousands of bugs and making them say "please" every time isn't
going to endear anyone to your cause. So do something like this:

    "<cat/pkg-version> stabilisation request"

>                URL:
> http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-libs/libconfig? arches=linux

Is this URL useful to include, or did you just want to abuse every
last feature found in pybugz? Wouldn't maintainers already know where
to find this kind of information? Who do you think is your audience?

>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: CONFIRMED
>           Severity: enhancement

Is a stabilisation an enhancement per se? If all stabilisations are
enhancements, then why isn't Severity set to Normal instead? (What is
an enhanced severity to begin with, Mozilla?)

>           Priority: Normal

This is where you probably wanted to set something similar to
Enhancement above, but again you probably shouldn't. Normal
stabilisation bugs are normal, not less than normal.

> Is it OK to stabilize =dev-libs/libconfig-1.4.9-r1 ?
>
> If so, please CC all arches which have stable keywords
>
> for older versions of this package and add STABLEREQ keyword
>
> to the bug.

My e-mail editor is messing up the line endings here, but your messages
already include double newlines - on bugzilla web pages as well as in
the e-mail it sends, so this is your broken pybugz script again, I
reckon?

Also, your script does not set the STABLEREQ keyword. People are having
to hunt down your robo-stabilisation requests and add it themselves.
You should just do it yourself or turn your script off.


      jer