Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0067: Add 'proxied' and 'watcher' maint types

[Aaron Bauman]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 01:20:34AM +0200, Jonas Stein wrote:
> On 02/08/2019 22.55, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Add two new maintainer types: 'proxied' for proxied maintainers,
> > and 'watcher' for people who wish to be CC-ed on bugs but are not
> > maintainers (e.g. upstream developers).
>
> Can't we solve this simply in the bug tracker? The monitor setting of a
> user does not belong into the tree.

I would disagree with this. The benefits of it being the metadata is just
that... it is metadata. Hence, QA checks can logically determine the state of
maintainership on a given package.

This is one of the reasons metadata.xml was standardized years ago.

>
> The upstream maintainer and all other "watchers" have no write access to
> the tree so they will consume manpower in adding and removing their
> contacts to packages.
>

This should become a repetitive task unless the package is continuously being
turned over to other maintainers. Once and done is the general rule.

> The perfect solution would be that any user can add a watch filter to
> my-cat/mypkg in the bugtracker.
>

This assumes that those reporting bugs are inputing proper information. See my
first comment regarding the metadata.xml standards.

> Between 2018-01-01 and 2018-12-31 we received and assigned 31280 bugs.
> I am no fan of the descriptions in the form "please CC: If the bug is
> about x but not y and the moon is in the third house of the lion"
>

This is a good point. I am not sure how many packages have this type of
information in the metadata, but it is not a good place for it.

> This consumes extra time for every assignment and prevents automagic
> assignment in future. We should rather keep it simple instead of
> extending the options.
>

I would think this *would* help us do automagic assignements in the future, but
more accurately.

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Cheers,
Aaron