"Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So this is now the third revision of this proposal. > > The first two editions are available here. > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/48485 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/49601 > > Comments are welcome, as are offers to implement it. > > Implementations should be a small python or perl script that take a > single CP atom an resolve it to an assignee, along with one or more CC > entries. They may assume that an rsync tree exists at $PORTDIR (not > /usr/portage, but $PORTDIR). Additional data files are welcome as well > for special assignment rules.
My main question to this entire proposal is do we actually want to give bugs that possibly have no useful information to maintainers? No script will be able to replace people looking at a bug and trying to get the user to supply information that will be useful for the maintainer of a package. The whole goal of the bug-wranglers project should be to provide bugs to maintainers that they can actually do something with when they receive them. (Yes yes, you can say that this doesn't happen all the time today, and you would probably be right, but that doesn't mean we can't fix that problem. A dedicated group of people that follow guidelines that we set up for bug-wrangling should improve the quality of bugs going to maintainers.) Also, does anyone know of any other open source project that does automatic assignment like this? I'd be interested to see how they implemented it and how it works for them. Maybe no one else agrees with me, but I think auto-assignment might make more work for people that don't want to deal with bugs that say: "sys-devel/gcc is br0ken!!!" and provide nothing useful to help us figure out the problem. Its a good idea, but since our users don't always provide useful reports, it seems like we are just shifting work around. Just my 2 cents, -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com
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