Re: [gentoo-dev] Prioritising contact information in metadata.xml

[Luis Francisco Araujo]

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Jeroen Roovers wrote:
|      Hi developers and other users,
|
|
| since jakub[1] went completely missing a few weeks ago a few others and
| I have been wrangling the bugs. I've heard rumours that this isn't
| working smoothly yet. Of course most of that can be fully blamed on
| bugzilla itself, but there are some things that need to be pointed out
| or discussed.
|
| One thing I'd like to point out is that if you don't agree with a
| specific mangle, just CC whoever did it on the bug and explain.
| If you don't give me the feedback, I can never know how you would
| rather have wanted to get bugs delivered.
|
| One other thing is that it is sometimes difficult to figure out to
| whom a bug should be assigned, because metadata.xml for many packages
| simply isn't clear. If you list a few developers as well as a herd,
| does that mean you want bugs assigned to the herd or to a single
| developer who happens to be in that list? Some packages list several
| herds in metadata.xml. Bugs can be assigned to just one address
| (or you get "Assignee: jer@g.o,bug-wranglers@g.o did not
| match anything").
|

I'd say that in the case of a herd listed , the bug should be sent
there. If it doesn't specify a herd but several developers, sending the
bug to any or all of them should be the rule.

| All in all I guess we need to make the rules up as we go and decide
| policy later. I suggest the first herd/address in the list should be
| the primary contact. If you don't agree with that, please consult

I agree.


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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux

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