On Saturday 18 May 2013 08:54:56 John Ralls wrote:
On May 18, 2013, at 2:04 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be[1]> wrote: 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[2], 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[3] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel[4] 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 ? If no one has the privs, then the procedure is to file a bug against bugzilla [1]. But I would think someone must have more privs than I do, at least to grant developer status and to assign users to the Gnucash-developers group. I can only search. Is there a Gnucash "bugmaster"? Regards, John Ralls [1] https://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/ForMaintainers[5] -- last line on the page. I can't create new users though. But perhaps we can fake this if one of us has control over the gnucash.org mail domain (Derek or Linas ?). In that case we can - temporarily create new e-mail aliases in that domain, - use these to register the dummy accounts we want on bugzilla - drop the mail aliases again or pipe mail they receive to /dev/null If not, we'll have to ask the bugzilla maintainer team nicely. Geert -------- [1] mailto:janssens-ge...@telenet.be [2] mailto:gtk-quartz-ma...@gnome.bugs [3] mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org [4] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel [5] https://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/ForMaintainers _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
