On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:35:59PM -0400, Frank Griffin wrote:
> Sorry if I'm being dense (I'm pretty new to the undocumented Cooker 
> social protocols and I'm not about to try searching the ML for 
> "bugzilla"), but if someone is interested in working on bugs in one or 
> several product areas, wouldn't it just be simpler to run a Bugzilla 
> query every day/week/month/whatever for all bugs in those areas since 
> the last time you queried ?  That would avoid wading through all of the 
> bug reports for those areas that don't interest you.

There are actually relatively few bug reports, we're only on Bug 4171...
Given that we've been probably using Bugzilla since the beginning of the
9.1 cycle... and there were some bugs in there already that's not too
bad.  If you add in every comment on each of those bugs the number of
messages increases substaintially.

> Of course, every time I try to run complex bugzilla searches, I get 500 
> Internal Server Errors....

If that's the case then those problems should be filed as bug reports
against Bugzilla itself so Warly can fix them.

> Again, I ask from ignorance, but would it be possible to register with 
> Bugzilla for a product category (rather than a specific bug) so that you 
> would get mails for any activity in that product category ?

If we were making full use of Bugzilla there would be a way to either
watch categories of bugs or at least specific packages bugs.
Maintainers already basically get this.  I don't see why other people
who are interested in a package shouldn't get this benefit too.  It
helps pull the signal from the noise.  Should increase contributions and
would hopefully cause more bugs to be fixed without the
maintainer/employee of having to do the foot work of figuring the issue
out.

But I've made these suggestions in the past and nobody seemed all that
interested in them.

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Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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"What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can
no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche

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