Bugzilla default/QA assignees

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 18 May 2013 08:54:56 John Ralls wrote:




On May 18, 2013, at 2:04 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be[1]> wrote:


On Monday 18 February 2013 17:09:20 John Ralls wrote:
> The default assignee field is mostly used to determine who gets bugmail for
> a particular component. Some of the assignments make sense, like having me
> be the default for Mac bugs, some not so much, like Chris Shoemaker for
> budget bugs: He hasn't been around for a long time.
> 
> It also makes it hard for non-bugzilla-admins to set themselves up for
> bugmail on new bugs, because the mechanism for doing so is to "watch"
> another user. Watching a real user means that you get bug mail not only for
> the bugs that that user is the default assignee,QA contact, or added to the
> CC list, but also for every bug that user comments on. Not really useful
> unless you're a stalker.
> 
> The mainstream Gnome approach is to have fake users for default assignees;
> for example, the Gtk Quartz backend has gtk-quartz-maint at gnome.bugs[2], which
> I watch so that I get bug mail for any of those. I propose doing the same
> for our gnucash components, with a per-component address for default
> assignee and a gnucash-bugs address for QA assignee to make it easy to get
> all bugmail.
> 
> I'll change the components, but I can't create the users because I don't
> have privs for doing that.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-devel mailing list
> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org[3]
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel[4]
 
This idea was launched a couple of months back. I still think it's a good one. What needs to 
be done to get it set up ? Who should we contact to create these dummy users ?


If no one has the privs, then the procedure is to file a bug against bugzilla [1]. But I would 
think someone must have more privs
than I do, at least to grant developer status and to assign users to the Gnucash-developers 
group. I can only search. 
Is there a Gnucash "bugmaster"?


Regards,
John Ralls




[1] https://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/ForMaintainers[5] -- last line on the page.





I can't create new users though. But perhaps we can fake this if one of us has control over 
the gnucash.org mail domain (Derek or Linas ?). In that case we can
- temporarily create new e-mail aliases in that domain,
- use these to register the dummy accounts we want on bugzilla
- drop the mail aliases again or pipe mail they receive to /dev/null


If not, we'll have to ask the bugzilla maintainer team nicely.

Geert

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[1] mailto:janssens-geert at telenet.be
[2] mailto:gtk-quartz-maint at gnome.bugs
[3] mailto:gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
[4] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
[5] https://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/ForMaintainers