On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM Mark Wielaard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sam, > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 07:27:15PM +0000, Sam James via Overseers wrote: > > Fairly often, I find that new contributors with commit access don't have > > a Bugzilla account and hence can't be CC'd on any regressions. > > > > Even worse, sometimes this is even the case for actual port maintainers > > too. > > > > Can we please require that a Bugzilla account is created during the > > process for commit access approval by overseers (BZ lets admins create > > accounts, this should be easy) > > Yes, we could do that. Either automated, by hand or by sending email > on account creation to gcc-bugzilla-account-request. > > > or we add it as a manual step like updating MAINTAINERS? > > There will always be a manual step like that because the bugzilla > account needs to be activated by resetting the password. > > Question is if we should also do this for all existing accounts that > don't have a corresponding bugzilla account. Some people just use the > email address in the MAINTAINERS file. > I'd expect that all email addresses in MAINTAINERS should have a bugzilla account. And all @gcc.gnu.org accounts as well. Incidentally, I seem to have an unneeded account for [email protected], can we remove that? Jason
