On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Michael Palimaka <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/08/2013 22:41, hasufell wrote: >> >> You are a bug wrangler and should have the >> authority to mess with anything in bugzilla. > > Don't forget that anybody can start a project, even if it conflicts with > other projects. While Jeroen's experience certainly gives him a more insight > regarding bugzilla issues, making anyone the ultimate authority on anything > does not fit in with our current metastructure.
Having two bug wrangler projects whose main function ends up being fighting revert wars over subject line formatting and writing policies denouncing the other project is counter-productive. If you have strong feelings and want to contribute to how bugs are managed, join the bug wranglers. The bug wranglers project does need to hold elections for leads per the policy you just cited. It is better for people to first try to work together before they just dig in and start fighting each other. If things are out of hand ask the Council to step in. My two cents - I think that what Jer is doing is mostly a value-add. I wouldn't go changing subject lines to just remove a period, but more substantive edits should be welcome if it improves consistency. It might be nice if we could somehow flag such revisions so that emails are either suppressed or marked as trivial edits, so that everybody could filter their bugspam accordingly. Don't get me wrong - I like GLEP 39 and the idea of allowing "competing projects." However, the intent of that wasn't really to endorse wars over things that are basically indivisible, like bugzilla. If you wanted to start up your own alternative next-gen bugzilla go ahead, though the distro should probably treat it like an experiment until it is ready to go. OpenRC is an example of where starting over was a big improvement. However, the point is that we didn't have two projects fighting over commits to baselayout-1 - we recognized the opportunities of starting over. Also, starting over simply to avoid the need to cooperate is dumb - it might not be forbidden, but it is dumb. When we start something over it should be because it just makes sense to do it that way. Rich
