Fedora bug triage - workflow proposal
Matej Cepl
mcepl at redhat.com
Thu Jan 17 11:34:20 UTC 2008
On 2008-01-16, 06:21 GMT, Jon Stanley wrote:
>> What about the above case of NEEDINFO(maintainer)?
>
> Great question, I've never seen this actually used. Most of the time
> it's in NEEDINFO(reporter). I guess some logic could be used, I'm not
> sure of the how good tag support is in the XMLRPC API. Maybe someone
> smarter than me could comment.
NEEDINFO(maintainer) is kind of difficult. I know for sure that
there are developers with huge number of opened bugs (I won't
name the ...) who actually claim that marking a bug as
NEEDINFO(maintainer) is one of the most secure ways how to make
it lost. Developers either follow all their bugmail and
NEEDINFO(maintainer) is unnecessary, or they just go for ASSIGNED
bugs and then it is actually pretty harmful.
While writing previous paragraph, the issue begin pretty clear to
me -- now I would vote for removing NEEDINFO(maintainer) from the
bugzilla (or at least its Fedora part it is possible to separate
it) completely. If anybody every comes with the reason why he
needs to set NEEDINFO against maintainer, there is always
NEEDINFO(other).
Just my 0.02 CZK
Matěj
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