Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: > > Now, when editing a bug, you'll see a drop-down to the right side of the > > page under the heading "Flags". You can set backport-2009.06 to "?", which > > means that you're requesting someone to look at the flag and either approve > > or deny the request (in this case, whether the bug should be backported to > > 2009.06). > > Is the intent that a developer do this to request permission to integrate a > backport or that users can also do this to request the pkg team consider > backporting a bug? > > (i.e. if there's a bug fix I think should be backported, should I set it, or > since I won't be doing the backport, should I ask one of the pkg team > developers to do so?)
My thought for now is that anyone should be able to set the flag. There's nothing that says non-developers can't see a problem waiting to happen if a bug isn't backported that the development team might miss. For those used to the Sun way of doing this, this is similar to the process of setting the New program management flag and waiting for it to be marked Waived, Stopper, Exempt, etc (although of course the meaning is different). That has had no control over who can set NEW, and it's worked well enough. This at least has control over the denial and granting actions to a subset of the bugzilla users. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
