In the bug genie, we've added functionality called "teams" to address these
kind of needs. Anyone can be a member of any number of teams, and teams can
be assigned to almost all the fields a user can, such as
"owner"/"assignee", etc. This goes for both issues, projects, components
and more. This makes managing users joining and leaving much easier, as
well as monitoring and subscribing to updates on interesting
topics/components.

I think at least Redmine also has something similar.

-Daniel André
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 04:55 +0200, Krinkle wrote:
> > Assignee should be empty by default, only set when going to be worked on.
> > Current "Default assignee" should in most cases be default CC. Then we
> won't
> > need status "ASSIGNED" anymore (which is currently often forgotten, but
> due to
> > the "default assignee" stuff, one can often not see whether it's really
> on
> > someone's list).
>
> 1) From a (slighly egoistic) bugmaster point of view I prefer to not
> edit the default CC list everytime somebody changes her/his field of
> interest or joins or leaves the project.
> 2) As far as I understand I am currently unable to follow development
> (means: all bugmail) for a specific component or product that interests
> me as a volunteer / potential future contributor.
> Somebody please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> In GNOME Bugzilla we "worked around" both problems by abusing the
> "Default QA Contact" field (which is not enabled in Wikimedia Bugzilla):
> We use a fake account specific for each component
> (e.g. "NOBODY <[email protected]>" as default QA contact
> for $component AND as default assignee).
> Developers and interested volunteers can add this account to their
> "Bugzilla user watchlist" to receive all bugmail for that component.
> The real name makes clear that "nobody" is assigned to work on the task.
> If $somebody plans to work on a task you can set the assignee to
> $somebody, and anybody else can still follow the progress of that task
> as the QA Contact is still that fake email address in his/her watchlist.
>
> FYI, I filed this idea as
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36457
>
> andre
> --
> Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster & GNOME Bugsquad)
> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>
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