On 05/25/2010 02:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Tuesday 18 May 2010 02:02:01 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
could you please help the poor bug wranglers a bit?! The queue has reached
170 unassigned bugs...
people dont seem to realize that bug-wranglers isnt just for re-assigning to
the proper maintainer. they are supposed to be doing basic triage, user
feedback, as well as cleaning up the bug. i shouldnt be seeing bugs assigned
to maintainers that have "${PN}-1.ebuild" as their subject, nor bugs that lack
basic things like `emerge --info` or build logs.
As long as the status quo works I don't think we need to change it.
However if we are running into issues with keeping up it might make
sense to just have wranglers do assignments to maintainers and let the
maintainers deal with the rest.
The reason is that the maintainer might be able to spot dups much more
readily, or spot obvious solutions to bugs, where a wrangler might be
hunting around.
By all means wranglers should do what they can when they can, but keep
in mind that if you yell at a wrangler any time they "do it wrong" a
natural response of devs will be to not bother with bug wrangling or
just looking for their own bugs in the list.
I'm not necessarily proposing any changes here, but in general we need
to be careful about barriers to entry in projects that are undermanned.
Rich
