Assigning bug to 'me' practice for triagers

[Paul Dufresne]

I have only recently actively working on bug triaging.

I have taken the habit, in most case, on an incomplete report, to assign
the bug
on me, as this is suggested to do on:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage#head-65e5a5e189e28e52756baa61c7cd13b0f8121738

This is/was making sense to me. The assignee, is the one taking care of
a bug, RIGHT NOW.
As the bug triager is trying to get more information before have it
ready to be examined
by a competent developer (confirmed state as I see it), it make sense to
have it assigned to him.
This way, searching for unassigned bug, become a reasonable way to find
bugs that needs
some action on them.

It took me a number of reading at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity to realize that
this is not permitted on Ubiquity:
"Please do not assign ubiquity bugs to anyone unless you're a ubiquity
developer or you manage a ubiquity developer."

In fact, this message was initiated based on extract of Colin Watson, on
a parted bug:
"Unassigning Paul from this bug, unless he actually plans to write the
code necessary to fix this.".
On this particuliar bug, I felt relieved, because the reporter was quite
annoyed at the way I was
triaging his bug.

I have received a number of such comments, that I should not assign a
bug to myself as a bug triager.

So this email is a request to make sure 'HowToTriage bugs's suggestion
to assign to oneself is right.
And if so, see in what case/packages, this would be considered bad
practice.


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