bugzilla comments

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:52:13PM +0100, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Chris Shoemaker schrieb:
> >Thanks for that summary.  I'm glad we have a couple bugzilla-masters
> >around.  I looked at bugzilla yesterday and noticed a bug that could
> >be closed.  (test-lots failure) But, it's owned by linas.  What
> >recourse is there for bugs owned by inactive developers?
> 
> You mean http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147025 ?

Yes.

> 
> Did you actually try to login? 

Yes.  And it shows my login at the upper right. 
"Logged In chris.shoemaker at cox.net | Log Out"

> If you do, don't you see the radiobox 
> choices including "Resolve bug, changing resolution to Fixed" and a 
> "Commit" button below? 

No.  I don't see the radiobox, and the word "resolve doesn't appear on
the page.

> If you see those you can just click them. If 
> someone complains, that other someone can still reopen that bug at a 
> later point in time.
> 
> In other words, there is no "ownership" of the bugs. Any of the gnucash 
> developers can open and close any other bugs. The "ownership" rather 
> refers to a loose promise saying "I'm responsible and I hope to do the 
> work at some point in time".

Ok, I guess that was my incorrect inference from two apparently
unrelated facts: 1) I can't seem to change the disposition of any
bugs.  2) I don't "own" any bugs.

> 
> >I'd like to volunteer to be assigned any bugs related to Budget, (I
> >hope to create a component for that) 
> 
> I'm sure jsled or Derek can add such a component.

Ok, I've done this now.

> 
> >and also any bugs now assigned to
> >any inactive developers.
> 
> You can do this yourself. Make a query on Linas, and choose "reassign to 
> chris shoemaker" on each of the bugs.

The search doesn't seem to index the "assigned to" metadata, but I get
the idea.  But, I see no "reassign to .." option.

What am I missing, guys?

-chris