Re: Call for volunteers: tracker triage (it's easy!)

MikeK> - Will the package maintainers be added to the Assigned-To drop-down? ST> Well, what I had in mind was providing a feature where any ST> registered User could register themselves as Developer (see ST> issue284). ST> The other thing I should do is add the logged-in user to that menu ST> (new issue296, flagged "urgent"). Yes, either of those would be sufficient, I think. ST> I want Assigned-To to have at least minimal commitment semantics: ST> somebody has accepted specific responsibility for it. [...] ST> Even though package maintainers have accepted responsibility for ST> their packages, I don't think package maintainers need to be ST> qualified to *fix* bugs. They just need to know who can fix them, ST> and how to find those people. Indeed, but I think this begs the question of what does it mean for someone to take resposibility for a bug. It could mean responsibility for driving a discussion with the upstream package provider and getting the issue resolved that way. And in that sense I'd be fine with having package maintainers assigned to issues in any of their packages. OTOH, I expect some percentage of bugs will get filed against the wrong module, and package maintainers might not always be qualified to determine where the bug really resides and who ought to own it. So on whole, I think your current plan (address issue284, issue296) is fine. cheers, mike _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta