On Feb 18, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Chris Shoemaker <c.shoema...@cox.net> wrote:
> +1 ;) Well, well. Don't you get stiff lurking behind that fern? ;-) Regards, John Ralls [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;bug_status=NEEDINFO;component=Budgets;product=GnuCash > > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
