Linking negative karma points to a reported bug

[Till Maas]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 05:58:44PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 11:09 +0200, Till Maas wrote:

> > If for example all Bugzilla notification mails are screened for changes
> > in the whiteboard field, it would be enough for someone to add it
> > properly once to notify the blocker/NTH committee of its existence.

> > Other ideas:
> > - Screening for special keywords in comments
> > - Allowing to add blocker proposals to a wiki page and screen changes
> > - Allow to send blocker proposals to a special e-mail address
> > - Provide a special web app where bug IDs can be entered
> 
> I'm not a huge fan of any of these because they all require manual
> translation of the request, and that's something that's always going to
> go wrong at some point. What the current method achieves is it feeds the
> nomination straight into our actual blocker handling workflow, which is
> entirely centred around Bugzilla. There's no manual 'handling' of the
> nomination needed, it's just...done. I'd definitely like to keep that
> element.

I though it was obvious, but of course there does not need to be any
manual translation, but a script that automatically adds the specified
bugs to the tracking bug.

Regards
Till