Hi! This comes up in #gcc on IRC every so often, so finally writing an RFC.
What? --- I propose that MAINTAINERS be modified to be of the form, adding an extra field for their GCC/sourceware account: <Name> <Email> <Email on gcc.gnu.org BZ / sourceware account> Joe Bloggs joeblo...@example.com jblo...@gcc.gnu.org Further, that the field must not be blank (-> must have a BZ account; there were/are some without at all)! Why? --- 1) This is tied to whether or not people should use their committer email on Bugzilla or a personal email. A lot of people don't seem to use their committer email (-> no permissions) and end up not closing bugs, so pinskia (and often myself these days) end up doing it for them. 2) It's standard practice to wish to CC the committer of a bisect result - or to CC someone who you know wrote patches on a subject area. Doing this on Bugzilla is challenging when there's no map between committer <-> BZ account. Specifically, there are folks who have git committer+author as joeblo...@example.com (or maybe even coold...@example.com) where the local part of the address has *no relation* to their GCC/sw account, so finding who to CC is difficult without e.g. trawling through gcc-cvs mails or asking overseers for help. Summary --- TL;DR: The proposal is: 1) MAINTAINERS should list a field containing either the gcc.gnu.org email in full, or their gcc username (bikeshedding semi-welcome); 2) It should become a requirement that to be in MAINTAINERS, one must possess a Bugzilla account (ideally using their gcc.gnu.org email). thanks, sam
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