On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 07:20 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 9/17/15 7:05 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 06:57:08 -0400 > > "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > Totally rethink the idea of emails aliases as something that is > > > created on the fly. We just need to know who should get emails for a > > > package when it comes to bug reports. Why can't that be calculated > > > on the fly from the metadata.xml? > > I've not read every last part of this thread but I think I like where > > this is going. I just want to be sure that people besides those in the > > Java herd/project/whatever can continue to receive emails for > > j...@gentoo.org. For instance, gnu_andrew is not a dev and does not > > intend to be but he still likes to be CC'd on all Java mail. I would > > not like to have to add his address to the metadata.xml of every Java > > package. > > > Yes. If the metadata.xml contained both and > tags, it would go to all of j...@gentoo.org and to gnu_andrew. Already > not all are devs. > > To further address mgorny's objections, that's what bug-wranglers are > doing now. I can see even automating the bug-wrangler step of assigning > bugs. A python script could parse the bug title for a package name, > obtain the metadata.xml, assign the bug to 1) project first, else > maintainer by order, 2) cc the rest. bugzilla would then send out the > emails.
Your proposal kills at least one project's workflow. The gnome team uses gnome@g.o email alias (1) to subscribe the whole project (including people who don't have a gentoo.org email but are working on the overlay) to *upstream* bug trackers such as gnome, freedesktop, and webkit bugzillas; (2) for communication within the team (since it's proven impractical to get everybody on irc at the same time); (3) as a method by which other people can contact the whole project. And of course for consistency, it's expected that gentoo bugs assigned to gnome@g.o will get sent to the same list of people. So we really do require our email alias with a list of subscribers both within and outside gentoo. Not some dynamically-created thing that's specific to just gentoo bugzilla and needs metadata.xml.
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