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On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:16 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:46:24PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> > Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > > Case 2 - Metadata contains a single maintainer |
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> > > ---------------------------------------------- |
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> > > - The herd field is not used. |
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> > > - The maintainer address is used as the bugzilla assignee. |
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> > At least for some packages I'm involved with, this will result in me |
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> > deleting myself from metadata.xml (but I'd rather not do so). |
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> > |
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> > I like these bugs to go to the herd, not me directly. I get the bug mail |
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> > anyway (I'm in the herd) but sometimes other herd members who see the mail |
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> > jump in and help resolve the bug, for which I'm very grateful. |
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> This is handled by a later case in the proposal. |
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> Simply interest a maintainer element with the herd email address, and |
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> add the contact=0 attribute to your maintainer element in the file. |
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> > That aside, I like having myself in the metadata alongside the herd, to |
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> > point out that I am the primary maintainer within the herd for the package |
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> > in question. It is also useful for others so that when they have questions |
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> > about the package, they know who to approach on IRC or whatever. |
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> This is exactly the reason that I proposed the contact=0 attribute - for |
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> some of the packages that I maintain, I do not want the bugs assigned |
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> directly to me, but to the herd instead. While for others I _do_ want |
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> the duplicate. |
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Could "contact" be named differently then? |
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contact=0 in metadata.xml in this context means that the automatic |
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reassigning should not assign to that maintainer, but when a user looks |
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whom to ask specific questions from and sees contact=0 he/she will |
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understand he/she is not to contact that person as the value is zero, |
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but Daniel wants them to contact precisely him in that case. |
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A different keyword might be better for that reason. |
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Good proposal otherwise! |
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I do have some reservations due to no human looking over new bugs |
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(before they get reassigned to a possibly otherwise busy maintainer), as |
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someone already has expressed, but we can always try it out and see how |
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it goes, I think. |
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Regards, |
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Mart Raudsepp |
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