On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 05:31:13PM -0500, Maxwell G via devel wrote: > On Saturday, July 2, 2022 3:11:44 PM CDT Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 11:54:17AM -0500, Maxwell G via devel wrote: > > > On Saturday, July 2, 2022 10:01:18 AM CDT Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > > > This is an extremely common problem in Fedora: the de facto maintainer > > > > is not the main admin, and so the bugs are assigned to the wrong > > > > person. Ideally we would automatically orphan a package if the main > > > > admin does not have any commits to the package for a certain period of > > > > time, e.g. three years. > > > > > > It would help if other people besides the main admin could change the > > > Bugzilla assignee. After all, if the main admin is non-responsive, it's > > > going to be difficult to get them to do it. > > > > I'm not sure the main admin matters as much as this thread indicates? > > All the other maintainers of the package are CC'ed, in this case > > belegdol. > > Maybe the main admin isn't so important, but the Bugzilla assignee is. > Packages should be assigned to the person who is actually maintaining it. > This
Well, what if it's 2 people and they trade off? Or 3 ? or 4? Or some people handle bugs in one area and others in another... having only one 'assignee' is kind of limiting. ;( > makes it so bugs are more likely to be addressed. Then, the bugs will also I'm not sure that it makes bugs more likely to be addressed. The only difference between assignee and someone on cc is what field bugzilla shows. They both get email, no? > show up in the "Open bugs assigned to me" link on the Bugzilla homepage[1] > for > the actual maintainer. This is more important for EPEL than Fedora proper. > For > packagers who don't care about EPEL, EPEL bugs should be assigned to the co- > maintainer (or the epel-packagers-sig) who actually maintains the EPEL > branches; the latter should be held responsible to fix bugs and be the one > who > is NEEDINFO'd (when/if that happens), not the Fedora maintainer. It seems > like > there is at least some agreement in this area[2]. Ah, I never use that anymore. I tend to use command line 'bugzilla query' or https://packager-dashboard.fedoraproject.org/ along with emails. But perhaps you're right as I have a lot of bugs and could probibly do better prioritizing. I personally don't like NEEDINFO. We don't have any common perception of when it should be used and it can be used by anyone. :( I only use needinfo on things that are time sensitive and some specific information is required from the needinfo target. Like "can you fix this in time to do a new compose before go/no-go". Others use it for an implied 'do you plan to fix this bug', others 'it's been a while and you didn't get to this bug so are you going to?'. Some people even set it right away when the bug was filed, not leaving any time for 'normal' processing. When/if we move off bugzilla we should take all these considerations into what we end up choosing and ways to make these workflows better. kevin
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