+1 ;)

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 05:09:20PM -0800, John Ralls wrote:
> The default assignee field is mostly used to determine who gets bugmail for a 
> particular component. Some of the assignments make sense, like having me be 
> the default for Mac bugs, some not so much, like Chris Shoemaker for budget 
> bugs: He hasn't been around for a long time.
> 
> It also makes it hard for non-bugzilla-admins to set themselves up for 
> bugmail on new bugs, because the mechanism for doing so is to "watch" another 
> user. Watching a real user means that you get bug mail not only for the bugs 
> that that user is the default assignee,QA contact, or added to the CC list, 
> but also for every bug that user comments on. Not really useful unless you're 
> a stalker.
> 
> The mainstream Gnome approach is to have fake users for default assignees; 
> for example, the Gtk Quartz backend has gtk-quartz-ma...@gnome.bugs, which I 
> watch so that I get bug mail for any of those. I propose doing the same for 
> our gnucash components, with a per-component address for default assignee and 
> a gnucash-bugs address for QA assignee to make it easy to get all bugmail.
> 
> I'll change the components, but I can't create the users because I don't have 
> privs for doing that.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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