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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla config wrt games
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 15:30:20
Message-Id: 20150526153009.GA23204@vapier
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla config wrt games by Thomas Kahle
1 On 26 May 2015 09:59, Thomas Kahle wrote:
2 > I maintain a game (games-strategy/freeotion) aside from the games herd.
3 > When users report bugs, they choose the "Games" component and then bugs
4 > get auto-assigned to the games alias. This is also the recommended
5 > procedure:
6 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Project:Games
7 >
8 > Given our games maintenance rules this seems wrong. Shouldn't games
9 > bugs be wrangled based on metadata like other bugs?
10 >
11 > I understand that changing this behaviour would create a lot of useless
12 > bugwrangling work... so maybe there is a different solution?
13
14 not really games specific -- this applies to every component that has a default
15 assignee. unless/until we can make bugzilla aware of specific packages that the
16 user could select/enter so bugzilla could pull owner info out of metadata.xml
17 directly, i think the status quo is the least crappy.
18
19 relevant: http://bugs.gentoo.org/550158
20 -mike

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