Get rid of the ~bzr-core team?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 6/14/2011 10:42 AM, Max Bowsher wrote:
> The ~bzr-core team is a fairly confusing entity. Its name invokes an
> impression of a higher privilege level than ~bzr, whereas the reverse is
> actually true, since ~bzr is a member of ~bzr-core.

~bzr-core exists because Aaron wanted to only get mails about bzr
branches themselves (the core of bzr), and not about any plugins etc, in
the greater ~bazaar group.

> 
> As far as I know, ~bzr-core only exists to provide a common team to
> which people who would otherwise be in ~bzr, but are unwilling to
> tolerate the torrent of bugmail that currently implies, can be added.
> 
> Having completed the removal of code review email to ~bzr, this seems
> like a good time to review the bugmail situation:
> 
> 
> ~bzr is subscribed to ~bzr-core which is subscribed to:
>   * bzr
>   * ubuntu/bzr

Right, it is subscribed to only the "core" of bzr. I'm sure there could
be a better name somewhere. I personally don't care (since I'm
subscribed to everything), but I would wait to hear back from people who
*do* want to get mail about ~bzr but don't want to get mail about
anything else.

John
=:->


> 
> ~bzr is directly subscribed to:
>   * bzr-website
>   * bzr-usertest
>   * bzr-hg
>   * bzr-email
>   * bzr-git
> 
> ~bzr is subscribed via other team memberships to:
>   * bzr-gtk
>   * ubuntu/bzr-gtk
>   * bzr-upload
>   * qbzr
>   * ubuntu/bzr-hg
> 
> 
> This is a fairly eclectic set of bug subscriptions. I do not see any
> particular rationale for which Bazaar-related projects are included or
> excluded from it.
> 
> I would like to propose that we unsubscribe ~bzr from all of this.
> 
> People who wish to receive core bzr bugmail can explicitly subscribe to
> 'bzr' and 'ubuntu/bzr' (or just 'bzr'). Unlike the situation with code
> review, where individual subscriptions to each series branch were
> required, Launchpad already models subscribing to a whole project or
> distribution source package for bugmail just fine.
> 
> People who wish to receive additional bugmail for Bazaar related
> projects can subscribe to the ones that they are interested in, rather
> than relying on ~bzr's arbitrary selection.
> 
> Having rationalized our bugmail subscriptions in this way, the original
> need for the ~bzr-core team will have disappeared (IIRC), and we can
> merge ~bzr-core into ~bzr.
> 
> Completing this will require liasing with the owners of ~bzr-gtk,
> ~bzr-upload-devs and ~qbzr-bugs, from which ~bzr currently inherits
> bugmail subscriptions - but I think it's worth taking the time to do so
> to improve the current situation.
> 
> Max.
> 

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