Automating the NonResponsiveMaintainers policy

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcela Mašláňová" <mmaslano at redhat.com>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 1:57:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Automating the NonResponsiveMaintainers policy
> 
> On 03/02/2012 12:52 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>
> >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
> >> <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 12:20:10 PM
> >> Subject: Automating the NonResponsiveMaintainers policy
> >>
> >> I am a feature owner for a feature that involves components in the
> >> hundreds and is heavily depended on maintainers responsiveness.
> >>
> >> For me to start enacting the non responsive maintainers policy is
> >> a
> >> tremendous work thus I'm wondering if there is something
> >> preventing
> >> us
> >> from automating the non responsive maintainer policy?
> >>
> >> An bugzilla script that acts something like if maintainer has not
> >> responded to a bug report with the status new in a week ( or some
> >> other
> >> time ) the non responsive maintainers policy automatically starts
> >> taking
> >> effect.
> > 
> > Well, this is plain nonsense. Do you know how many bug reports do a
> > number of the packagers have ?
> > And speaking for "A WEEK" is something that is even offensive.
> > People tend to take 2 weeks of vacation still.
> > 
> > So I would make a contra-proposal.
> > 
> > If a maintainer doesn't respond to a bug repord with the status new
> > in a week - give commit rights to the reporter in pkgdb so he/she
> > can fix it himself.
> > 
> > I really think this is way more fare and people that tend to think
> > that packagers are just a bunch of lazy guys should step in do
> > some of this dirty work to get an idea what we speak about.
> > 
> > Alex
> 
> I would change week to longer period, but it sound better than
> previous
> proposal.

I said a week to make it close enough to the original proposal and as I said requesting every packager to request in a week is something I even consider an insult.

Alex

> 
> Marcela
> > 
> >>
> >> To get out of that automatic non responsive process the maintainer
> >> would
> >> have to comment on the bug and set it's status assigned ( or
> >> something
> >> similar ).
> >>
> >> JBG
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