Daniel Drake posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:17:34 +0100:
> Chris White wrote: >>>never reassign a bug >> >> >> Ok, I have a section on how to re-assign the bug to the maintainer if >> you're the reporter, so you don't want that at all is what you're >> saying? Just let bug-wranglers handle it? > > Yes, I'm pretty much saying that. Thinking back to the situation that > prompted me to note this down, a kernel bug came in. bug-wranglers > assigned it to kernel. The reporter then reassigned it to me(!?) without > me even responding, with a comment like, "dsd this one is for you". Since > when do our users get to choose which developer fixes their bug? I found > this quite rude and replied with a (probably too harsh) comment and > reassigned it back to kernel. The user then sent me an apologetic email, > stating that he didn't know much about Gentoo development and asked me to > explain the reassignment procedures. > > My response to that: Just leave reassignment to the developers (wranglers > included). Counter-example. The amd64 team specifically mentions in their documentation on keywording that keyword bugs can be specifically assigned to amd64. Likewise with the multilib-strict bugs, they were to be assigned to amd64. Of course, that's an arch team, not an individual developer, but the point stands, if these bugs are being filed on specific request of some team or individual developer (as with testing of some package or another), there's no reason to bother bug-wranglers with it, when all they are going to do is assign it to the same folks that requested it, that got the user testing and filing the bug in the first place! So... something like the following (first draft off the top of my head, can probably be rewritten rather better than this): "Leave the bug assignment alone, unless you are sure you know who to assign it to. For most bugs and reporters, that means let the bug-wranglers handle it, unless the bug has been filed in response to a specific request by the package maintainer/herd or your arch team. If you are reading this, it probably means leave it alone." -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
