On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 01:32:58PM -0700, Animesh Chaturvedi wrote: > > [Animesh>] Folks I wanted to get your opinion on auto-assignment > > based on the component maintainers list. We can also create shared > > issues filters based on components. Folks can subscribe to the > > filters of interest and receive daily email notification. > > I have no opinion and am okay whichever way - auto-assign/unassigned. > But these workflows should be _*clearly*_ mentioned to contributors > and where they will go looking for them - wiki, website etc. > > A non-sponsored new/old (casual/hippie) contributor would try to search among unassigned issues, while managers/developers/committers whose $dayjob allows them to work on ACS fulltime will tend to do 'cookie lickin' which is understandable and will assure that someone gets the privilege to work on it and their employers will make sure the task would be done :) I would prefer an environment where every contributor (sponsored or otherwise) would assign the tickets themselves, and unassign if they cannot do it or don't have time/resources for it. We've already seen several occasions where someone assigns an issue to someone and we see cycle of assignments because the "assigner" had no clue about the issue or did not really know who would could really resolve the issue. Just saying. Cheers. Triaging and assigning issues at the time of release to > contributors/committers by the Release Manager shouldn't be a problem > at all as long as it's communicated (as Chip did for the RC bugs) > > Thanks, > > -- > Prasanna., >
