Most of you are probably familiar with the fake accounts we have in bugzilla. They have account names along the lines of <product>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
These are really handy, because they don't tie your bugs to any particular person. This is especially useful when you have a high turnover, like we do in the documentation team. Anybody can watch anybody else's account, so you can use these to assign bugs to a whole team. We recently made [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is, of course, the default assignee and QA contact for gnome-user-docs. In addition, we'd like to use this as the default assignee for the documentation components of any product whose documentation is maintained directly by the GDP. Module maintainers can still use another account for the default QA contact (their own address or their own -maint account), so they can still get notifications of all the documentation bugs. If your documentation is maintained by a specific team or individual, and it's not under the general maintainership of the GDP, fine, no worries. I'll probably pester your doc maintainers once every release cycle to make sure they're on the ball, and we'll be done with things. But bear in mind that the fake accounts are really handy things. If you're in the habit of using them, you might consider setting up a <product>-docs-maint account that your documentation folks can track. And hey, let the general documentation team know too, so we can get our voyeuristic kicks watching it. ;-) This email is already long, and I'm going to hit you with three long lists of modules. Remember, making gnome-user-docs-maint the defualt assignee for your documentation component should only be done if you are giving the GDP full maintainership over your documentation. That means I can commit without asking you. Here is a list of modules that contain (or should contain) user documentation, but do not have a component in bugzilla specifically for docs: dasher deskbar-applet gnome-desktop gnome-keyring-manager gnome-mag gnome-media gnome-nettool gnome-power-manager gnome-system-tools pessulus sabayon totem Here is a list of modules that have documentation components in bugzilla whose default assignee is a real account (i.e. a person): bug-buddy/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) evince/documentation ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) evolution/User Documentation ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) file-roller/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gcalctool/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gconf-editor/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gedit/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gnome-applets/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) control-center/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gnome-games/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gnome-netstatus/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) system-monitor/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gnome-utils/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gnopernicus/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gok/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gucharmap/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) zenity/docs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A few notes are in order here. Nothing should be getting assigned to me by default. If I'm the default assignee, it should be changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oddly enough, I'm the default assignee for gnome-games/docs, but I know Callum maintains those himself. Also, Breda (gcalctool) and John (gnome-utils) are not maintaining those documents anymore. As I said, if you want to keep maintainership with a specific individual or team, that's fine. But do consider a -docs-maint account for your product. Finally, here's a list of products which have documentation components for which the default assignee is the -maint account for the respective product: ekiga/Documentation (gnomemeeting-maint) eog/documentation (eog-maint) epiphany/Documentation (epiphany-maint) fast-user-switch-applet/Documentation (fast-user-switch-applet-maint) gdm/docs (gdm-maint) gnome-terminal/docs (gnome-terminal-maint) gnome-user-docs/* (gnome-user-docs-maint) sound-juicer/docs (sound-juicer-maint) Again, if you want to maintain your own stuff, fine. If you want the GDP to take care of your docs, then make us the default assignee. And do consider a -docs-maint account otherwise. This email was brought to you as a public service from the Gnome Documentation Team, and was sponsored in part by the letter G, the letter Q, and the number 7. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
