On 16.09.2011 18:11, Alex Marquez wrote: > zlin and I got into a discussion about BUGS_TO on IRC, prompted by the > plymouth exheres being out of date. Below is a (cleaned) > transcript.
Ok, looks like I'm going to be the party pooper once again... ;-) I like and *need* BUGS_TO. If it's really so unclear as to what it means, we (read: you, Alex :-) ) should come up with a patch for exheres-for-smarties. So, what does BUGS_TO mean? It simply tells people whom to assign bugs to and whom to ask in case of issues. "Assigning bugs" does *not* necessarily imply Bugzilla here but since it actually *is* being used (albeit not very often :-) ) it's not wrong either anyway. If someone who's in BUGS_TO vanishes, BUGS_TO's contents should be kept as-is until he's formally retired. (Which in the actual case I hope we won't do yet.) If someone else wants to be in there, he can add himself to it or even replace the former person's entry. Of course, the BUGS_TO field has never meant and won't ever mean that you *must* contact the BUGS_TO person (or group of people). Everyone is *encouraged* to submit patches regardless of who's in BUGS_TO anyway and I doubt it ever scared away anyone and if it did, well, tough luck - he wouldn't have survived me biting his head off anyway. ;-) BUGS_TO just provides you with a means to find out whom to to contact in case of doubt/questions/whatever. Furthermore, I'm using BUGS_TO to keep track of the packages I care about (and more or less maintain). Without BUGS_TO, I'd basically be unable to do that and give up. Last but not least, I don't think it's even worth a *minute* of Ciaran's time to rename BUGS_TO or add a CONTACT alias for it. I think every time we do that, he kills a <insert your favourite pet's offspring here> and you don't want to be responsible for that, do you?! ;-) Let's just fix e-f-s (if it's even broken) and be done with it. Best regards, Wulf -- Best regards, Wulf
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