On Monday 18 February 2013 17:09:20 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
This idea was launched a couple of months back. I still think it's a good one. What needs to be done to get it set up ? Who should we contact to create these dummy users ? Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
