Hi folks,
in light of some recent discussions where overlay maintainers found
that bug reports had been assigned "incorrectly" and thought it was apt
to inform the miscellaneous bug wranglers of the correct assignees, I
thought it would be a good idea to introduce a new list, akin to
metadata.xml and herds.xml, to resolve this issue once and for all. As
with herds and metadata, this overlays.xml should list a repository's
name, HOMEPAGE and the e-mail address(es) of its maintainers.
In the absence of such information, a bug wrangler may assign the bug
report to someone who has contributed to the overlay in question, or to
anyone who might reasonably know whom to properly assign the bug report
to.
In case assignment goes awry, and when the assignee is part of the team
of proper assignees, then the team or assignee should make sure
overlays.xml is updated to reflect the current maintainance status and
should add the remainder of the assignees themselves. Nothing else
needs to be done in this case - the next time a different bug wrangler
might be handling a bug report about that overlay, so CC'ing or pinging
(on IRC) doesn't make sense - updating overlays.xml would. If the
assignee is not part of the maintainer team of the overlay in question,
then the bug may be bounced back to bug-wrangl...@g.o.
Please discuss.
Kind regards,
jer
