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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] 'Gentoo Linux' bugzilla component reorganization
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:03:09
Message-Id: 20160616160255.183c9f35.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] 'Gentoo Linux' bugzilla component reorganization by Joshua Kinard
1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:47:12 -0400
2 Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 06/16/2016 08:04, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:11:30 +0200
6 > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> Right now we have the following components:
9 > >>
10 > >> - Applications,
11 > >> - baselayout,
12 > >> - Core system,
13 > >> - Development,
14 > >> - Eclasses and Profiles,
15 > >> - Games,
16 > >> - GCC Porting,
17 > >> - GNOME,
18 > >> - Hardened,
19 > >> - Java,
20 > >> - KDE,
21 > >> - Keywording & Stabilization,
22 > >> - Library,
23 > >> - New packages ('New ebuilds' previously),
24 > >> - Printing,
25 > >> - SELinux,
26 > >> - Server,
27 > >> - Unspecified.
28 > >
29 > > Revision two:
30 > >
31 > > - Current packages [bug-wranglers@],
32 > > - Eclasses [bug-wranglers@],
33 > > - Hardened [hardened@],
34 > > - New packages [bug-wranglers@],
35 > > - Overlays [overlays@],
36 > > - Profiles [bug-wranglers@],
37 > > - SELinux [selinux@].
38 > >
39 > > Major changes:
40 > >
41 > > 1. collapsed all category-like components into a single 'Current
42 > > packages' that is the default component for pretty much every bug
43 > > related to 'standard' configurations of Gentoo Linux -- making it easy
44 > > to choose the correct one and ensuring everything goes through
45 > > bug-wranglers;
46 > >
47 > > 2. split 'eclasses & profiles' into two separate categories -- mainly
48 > > intended for developer use;
49 > >
50 > > 3. left 'Hardened' and 'SELinux' (also the whole separate Gentoo/Alt
51 > > product) as the non-standard system configurations that desire staging
52 > > the bugs through respective teams,
53 > >
54 > > 4. left 'New packages' as-is, as category for requesting addition
55 > > of packages not yet in Gentoo,
56 > >
57 > > 5. added 'Overlays' component for bugs filed against packages
58 > > in third-party repositories (right now some of them got filed pretty
59 > > randomly, and having them in Infra->Overlays is kinda wrong),
60 > >
61 > > 6. removed 'Keywording & stabilization'. As pointed out, those can be
62 > > handled via keywords and we already do stabilizations in other places
63 > > (e.g. security bugs).
64 > >
65 > > Your thoughts about this one?
66 >
67 > I'd add at least an entry for "Toolchain" and route it to the toolchain@g.o
68 > address by default. Most users know to assign a majority of gcc-related or
69 > binutils-related bugs to toolchain anyways.
70
71 Do they? Is it common for them to report bugs in toolchain rather than
72 problems caused by toolchain upgrade that are actually bugs in code?
73
74 > Not sure if gcc-porting should be
75 > broken out, though. That is a separate alias that's targeted at working out
76 > issues on newer gcc releases and/or new capabilities.
77
78 That was my initial thought too. However, then I noticed it actually
79 goes to bug-wranglers@...
80
81 > I could think of others, like one for Gentoo/Alt, for the FreeBSD and other
82 > ports that kinda do their own thing. Linux alt-archs can get sorted out by
83 > bug-wranglers.
84
85 Gentoo/Alt has its own separate product. Not that this decreases
86 confusion but that's how things are right now...
87
88 --
89 Best regards,
90 Michał Górny
91 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>