[MOTU] 2005-08-03 Summary of MOTU Meeting

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On 6 Aug, 2005, at 4:52 AM, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> ...
>     i)   As you may be aware by now, while doing bug triage in Malone 
> in recent days I started assigning to the MOTU Launchpad team bugs on 
> Universe packages that were previously left unassigned. Is it 
> something that we should continue doing or not? While this ensure that 
> these bugs are properly associated to the MOTU team, it is generating 
> emails to some motu members, which may not be a productive on the long 
> run, especially considering that there is currently in the order of 
> 300 of these bugs in Malone. So the 2 questions are: should all 
> unassigned Malone bugs on Universe packages be assigned to the MOTU 
> Launchpad team, and if yes, should this be done automatically for all 
> new bug reports?

After four years of using bugzilla.mozilla.org, which automatically 
assigns new bug reports to a component's "default assignee", I noticed 
that commenters (possibly including potential contributors) would often 
wonder why nothing was happening when a bug was assigned to someone. I 
proposed that all components should be changed to have no default 
assignee, and that assignees who left a bug report untouched for too 
long should be deassigned. My proposal wasn't taken up. But in the 
years post-Netscape, post-Eazel, etc, many components in 
bugzilla.mozilla.org, bugzilla.gnome.org, and other Bugzillas have 
acquired a non-existent assignee (e.g. "layout at core.bugs" or 
"nobody at mozilla.org"). This probably solves the problem partly, but not 
completely.

We're still working out the kinks in the Malone bug assignment model 
(for example, you can currently make someone else "accept" a bug, which 
shouldn't be possible). But one thing I think we do right: bugs nobody 
has shown interest in yet are very obviously not assigned to anyone. I 
don't think it's a good idea for bugs to be assigned to teams; the 
assignee should be the person who is going to do the work.

>   b)  Discussion/Decision
>
>     i)  Modify dilys to do an RSS feed?
>
>    ii)  A mailing list for MOTU bugs?
>
>   iii)  Daniel H. requested delaying decisions until we get feedback 
> back about Launchpad.
> ...

An upcoming feature for Malone is the ability to subscribe to all new 
bug reports about a product or package 
<http://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/MaloneBugSubscriptions>. (The 
exception is security bugs, which only maintainers will see.) This 
should solve your problem.

Cheers
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Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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