I think this is a great idea. We have had a steady stream of people deactivate themselves from the LP group in LP and I suspected that the bug emails were at least partially responsible.
+1 Rick On Wednesday 06 February 2008 19:53:31 Mathias Gug wrote: > Hi all, > > ScottK and I discussed [1] some modifications that could be brought to > the ubuntu-server team [2] configuration in Launchpad. I'm sending this > email to get some feedback on the proposal. > > The issue raised by ScottK was the inefficiency of having bug mails sent > to all the team members. Some members are only interested in a subset of > packages. > > One option could be to leave the ubuntu-server LP team and setting > yourself as a bug contact for that package. However that would mean > "leaving" the Server Team. That also brings up the question of how one > can be recognized as being a member of the Ubuntu Server Team. > > The ubuntu-server LP team serves two purposes: > 1. Provide an "official" statement that a person is part of the Ubuntu > Server Team. > 2. Help to manage and track bugs in packages looked after by the Ubuntu > Server Team. > > One of the reason we use the current configuration is to have more > people seeing the bug mails hoping to get more bug triagers. However > this idea proved to be a failure: although the number of members has > increased a lot in the last 8 months, the number of bug triagers has > definitely not followed the same trend. > > So the proposal is to create an ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list that > would be used as the contact address of ubuntu-server. People interested > in receiving bug mails related to ubuntu-server (and thus being an > ubuntu-server bug triager) would have to join this new mailing list. > > Thus members of ubuntu-server wouldn't receive bug mails anymore. > > [1]: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/02/06/%23ubuntu-server.html - 23:36 > [2]: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server > > -- > Mathias Gug > Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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