Get rid of the ~bzr-core team? (really close now)

[Max Bowsher]

On 03/09/12 12:14, Max Bowsher wrote:
> On 14/06/11 10:12, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> We have now *very nearly* reached the point where ~bzr-core without
> sending people email about plugins.
> 
> All bugmail subscriptions have now been addressed.
> 
> The remaining kinds of email that Launchpad sends to ~bzr are:
> 
> 1) Code review notifications for Bazaar plugin projects which grant
> commit access to all of ~bzr:
> 
> 	bzr-gtk
> 	bzr-log-rss
> 	bzr-git
> 	bzr-hg
> 	bzr-pqm
> 	bzr-repo-push
> 	bzr-loom
> 	trac-bzr

This list is incorrect - I counted only plugins which have a maintainer
team of which ~bzr is a member.

There's also all the plugins for which ~bzr owns their development focus
branch directly.

Still, the general point holds.

Max.


> 
> My proposal to address this is to create a new team,
> ~bzr-plugin-reviewers, which ~bzr owns but is not a member of, and set
> it as the review team on the relevant branches.
> 
> People who desire to receive merge-proposal email for this class of
> plugin can add themselves to the team.
> 
> 2) Build failure notifications for recipe builds into the bzr/daily PPA.
> 
> I don't have a good solution for this, short of moving the daily builds
> to a PPA under a different team. I'm hoping that the volume of email
> concerned is sufficiently low that we can agree that it doesn't matter,
> and we can merge ~bzr-core into ~bzr regardless.
> 
> Max.
> 
> 
> 


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