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From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@×××××××.us>
To: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating and killing the concept of herds
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:38:51
Message-Id: 20140925152949.GO20130@odin.tremily.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating and killing the concept of herds by Rich Freeman
1 On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:00:32AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:31 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
3 > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:18:40PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > >>
5 > >> 4. A mail alias that is not project :). For example, we have
6 > >> clang@ for easily aggregating all clang-related build failures
7 > >> and other bugs but it isn't a formal team.
8 > >
9 > > As an incremental solution, what about a <watcher> tag in
10 > > metadata.xml with the same format as <maintainer> except that
11 > > being a watcher doesn't imply a willingness to *do* anything about
12 > > a project, it just means you want to be notified of changes and
13 > > added to the CC list.
14 >
15 > I'd given some thought to this as well, but didn't think it was a
16 > good idea.
17 >
18 > First, you can already create queries in bugzilla.
19
20 Not all package activity has an associated bugzilla entry, but maybe
21 enough of it does?
22
23 > Or, would it make more sense to find a way for anybody to follow
24 > issues in packages, assuming bugzilla queries aren't enough?
25
26 What about a <list> entry in metadata.xml that points people to the
27 suggested mailing list for discussing a package? Bugzilla could
28 automatically add the list to its CC list, and both devs and non-devs
29 could join the list without adding a lot of email addresses to the
30 tree.
31
32 Cheers,
33 Trevor
34
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