On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/27/2011 05:16 AM, Angus wrote: >> >> When I file a bug report with the Flyspray web interface, why can't I >> specify the package it concerns? Having that option should make it >> possible for the package maintainers to be immediately and >> automatically notified of the report. >> > > you seem to be a regular bugzilla user. You can't specify a package because > we have a lot of them and somebody has to add them as a project and sucks(it > might be a limitation for flyspray) > > instead we chose to have some style but not everyone use it. > > [packagename] short description > >> The way it works now seems to be that I have to wait for some generic >> bug janitor to manually assign my report to the maintainer of the >> package (correct me if I'm mistaken). For example, I filed a bug >> report nearly two days ago, but apparently no janitor (or any other >> maintainer) has looked at it jet, which means all that time is wasted >> for hardly any reason (and no, I won't specify which bug. It's >> irrelevant to the issue I'm addressing here.) >> >> I believe the coders among us appreciate efficiency and automation, so >> maybe we can improve this system? > > only if we use bugzilla. Please don't. Perhaps the package web interface could have a special "Report Bug" which files a bug into flyspray and fills in some of the fields automatically: version, maintainer, proper title template etc. Sander
