Bug Announces in #ubuntu-bugs

[Emmet Hikory]

On Dec 11, 2007 7:33 PM, Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>       * ubotu is generally useful. Ignoring it is probably not what
>         people want.

    Especially as an /ignore means that we don't see the URL & status
hints when a bug is specifically under discussion.

>      * People who are in the Bug Squad community don't really have a
>        'home' to discuss things in. #ubuntu-bugs is far too noisy for
>        that.

    For those that don't feel this pain, I'd suggest that switching to
an alternate channel by default, and not idling in #ubuntu-bugs would
likely meet their needs, as many members of BugSquad may also idle in
#ubuntu-bugs-announce to catch new bugs, and could continue to provide
some of the current input.

On Dec 12, 2007 1:18 AM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> One interesting idea would be to have the bug bot announce only a subset
> of the new bugs being reported.  The no package bug day reminded us that
> there are quite a few bugs submitted without a package and that this is
> a large blind spot for us.  Additionally, I think assigning bugs to a
> package can be a relatively easy task and is a good starting point for
> new triagers.  Subsequently, I'd like to see an experiment where the bug
> bot only announced bugs without a package and see how that affects the
> noise in #ubuntu-bugs.

    This sounds interesting, but I think it would also be interesting
to have a channel that does announce all the bugs.  About 20% of those
I triage are a direct result of seeing something that either has an
obvious solution or is obviously invalid.  In the absence of this, I'd
likely only triage the bugs of packages to which I was subscribed,
those of some of my regular Malone searches, and others I encountered
while engaged in other activities.

    Further, if the volume of these bugs was high enough to block
coordination, I'd suggest we'd do better to have a place to discuss
things directly, rather than allow the coordination channel to again
fill with bot posts.

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Emmet HIKORY