On Feb 23, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Christian Stimming <christ...@cstimming.de> wrote:
> Am Montag, 18. Februar 2013, 17:09:20 schrieb John Ralls: >> 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. > > +1 on the proposal, absolutely. > > But I didn't understand who needs to do the next step here. Where do we have > to create the users? In bugzilla or as mailing lists on gnucash.org? In Bugzilla, Administration>Users I think. The descriptive blurb for users says that one can create users there, but my privs allow me only to search. If no-one here has privs to make the users, I'll file a bug to the bug team to get it done. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
