On 05:30 Wed 26 May , Jeroen Roovers wrote: > To follow up on that, we could add some language to the point that if > it takes more than X days (say a week) then assignment to maintainers > proper should go through. This could be especially important when bugs > do seem relevant but should be looked at by someone (or a freakin' whole > "herd") with somewhat more intimate knowledge of the package in > question. > Another idea crossed my mind when I was bug-wrangling the other day, that could help, until Robin's "automatic assignment computation of bugs"[1] gets implemented and becomes reality. What if we create a partial-bug-wranglers mail alias, write a cron job to calculate statistics from from the bug-wranglers queue and send mails to that alias according to various rules eg. to send mail when the queue passed a limit of bugs eg. 100 or 200 unassigned, or statistics about how many bugs that were reported before more than a week are still in the queue. This way, people like me, who are willing to do partial bug-wrangling, they just add themselves in the alias and get activated only when the queue is huge or there are many old bugs around. The mails could work well as a reminder and we avoid the huge bug-wranlgers mail traffic when we monitor them in bugzie. I don't have time now, to implement any of this, I don't know even if it's a good idea, but if you like it, I could try to write a working script in some weeks (thanks to Jeremy(darkside) for showing me the pybugz magic and Christian(idl0r) for the curl magic).
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/66279 -- Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) ( Gentoo Lisp Project )
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