On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 05:54:39PM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> + is it ok to assign bugs to team-leads still ? > + quite attached to a push workflow, new bugs > in the area end up in mailbox (Lionel) I don't have a strong opinion on whether this happens from the very first report or after triage; both have advantages and disadvantages. Obviously, it happening after triage is a nice luxury for me (as a developer), and saves me quite some time: the bug already has the additional information that is needed to reproduce the bug, the "standard" questions have already been asked/answered, ... However, it consumes more triage/qa/... resources, and I get the impression that LibO is more resource-constrained in the triage/qa/... areas than in the pure developers area. Although maybe for Base specifically this is inverted ;) It can also be frustrating for a very clueful bugreporter to be asked questions (s)he (as a developer, but not LibO contributor) already knows are not relevant to the problem at hand. Also, I'm not sure about how to make it happen otherwise with our current community. Putting an individual as a "default assignee" (instead of libreoffice-b...@lists.fdo) is IMHO not a good long-term solution. For that, we would need per-component mailing lists, and the default assignee would be that. But I'm doubtful about the virtue of splitting the developer community in our current situation. Maybe if we use those mailing lists strictly only as the assignees and generally don't do discussion on them? On the other hand, I already don't keep up with libreoff...@l.fdo traffic :-| Ideally, the first mail I get about a bug also contains a good summary of the issue (which with bugzilla it typically doesn't if it gets assigned to me or I get added to the CC after the initial report....). Going to a webbrowser to read the bug log is less good, but livable / acceptable. (Hmm... Maybe if bugzilla emailed me a complete bug log instead of just "lio...@mamane.lu added to CC" on the first mail I get, and only on the first?) While we are on the subject of Bugzilla and email, I remember seeing somewhere a bugzilla-email interface such that one could manipulate bugs by sending email instead of in a webbrowser. I'd be marginally happier if that extension was installed/enabled on fdo bugzilla. And I want a pony, too ;-) Whether > * system stdlibs for Linux universal builds ? (Stephan/Petr) It was said on the talk "the vast majority of our (Unix) users will use distro packages". That's possibly true enough, but it is *extremely* convenient for us that we can point our users at daily builds for testing. So it is useful for *us* as developers/qa guys that *our* binary builds work everywhere. Even if it is not a huge problem for our users that they have to use distro packages, it is for *us*. -- Lionel _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice