Re: Greater bug specifics for automatic team assignment
Hi Felix, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." writes: > Hi Simon, > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:02 AM Simon Tournier > wrote: >> >> What do you have in mind? > > In my recollection of using Debbugs in Debian, which uses a slightly > different version with more features (for example, a SOAP interface) > than the instance provided by GNU.org, there is a feature called "user > tags." They allow anyone to set arbitrary labels. [1] The GNU Debbugs also has the user tags feature (it's documented in our manual, as was pointed by Simon). I haven't found how it's supposed to work exactly, as when adding test tags to some issues, I can't seem to find them back. Perhaps you could teach us how you used them, perhaps improving the doc already mentioning their usage in the Guix manual? That'd be cool. -- Thanks, Maxim
Re: Greater bug specifics for automatic team assignment
Hi Simon, On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:02 AM Simon Tournier wrote: > > AFAIK, we are not able to change the current Debbugs tags Alternatively, we could also change the bug "owner". Quoting from the documentation, "The owner of a bug claims responsibility for fixing it." [1] In the context of Guix, teams would have to make sure they are not offended when unrelated parties set or modify the bug owner. An assignment to someone else can come across as patronizing—especially in a ping-pong type situation—but I think that Guix contributors as a whole have a collective morale that is strong enough to discount any perceived slights. With a monorepo, it's all kind of left-pocket/right-pocket, anyway. Kind regards Felix [1] https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/doc/debbugs-ug.html#Mail-Command-Index
Re: Greater bug specifics for automatic team assignment
Hi Simon, On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:02 AM Simon Tournier wrote: > > What do you have in mind? In my recollection of using Debbugs in Debian, which uses a slightly different version with more features (for example, a SOAP interface) than the instance provided by GNU.org, there is a feature called "user tags." They allow anyone to set arbitrary labels. [1] Personally, I used regular tags frequently when co-maintaining Lintian in Debian. They were super helpful when dealing with hundreds of bugs. I therefore thought user tags could be helpful in Guix, especially for teams. I may not be alone. [2] We even have a section about them in the Guix manual, although I haven't seen them being used much. [3] Kind regards Felix [1] See "usertag", https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/doc/debbugs-ug.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-debbugs/2020-08/msg0.html [3] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Debbugs-Usertags.html
Re: Greater bug specifics for automatic team assignment
Hi, On mer., 26 avril 2023 at 13:57, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > As a corollary to the upcoming teams approach, should we tag bugs in > Debbugs so that their respective teams can find them? AFAIK, we are not able to change the current Debbugs tags [1] because they are administrated by GNU sysadmins. However, indeed we could agree on some common usertags as mentioned by the manual [2]. What do you have in mind? 1: https://debbugs.gnu.org/Developer.html#tags 2: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Debbugs-Usertags.html Cheers, simon
Greater bug specifics for automatic team assignment
Hi, As a corollary to the upcoming teams approach, should we tag bugs in Debbugs so that their respective teams can find them? Kind regards Felix
