Re: Proposal: drop extras-qa from all fedora bugs

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On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:17:51AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 07:03:29PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 09:30:45AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > Since time began (Fedora 7), all fedora bugs in bugzilla have had their
> > > "QA Contact" field set to: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
> > > 
> > > Bugzilla describes "QA Contact" as: 
> > > 
> > > "The person responsible for confirming this bug if it is unconfirmed,
> > > and for verifying the fix once the bug has been resolved."
> > > 
> > > However, also since at least 2007-04-20 emails to that address go to
> > > /dev/null. (Before that they went to a linux.duke.edu address, so I am
> > > not sure where they went). 

Should we be so hasty? If has worked well without causing any problems
for so many years.

> > > I'd like to propose dropping this from all Fedora bugs. 
> > > 
> > > It's a useless extra email that bugzilla has to generate, network has to
> > > send and deliver and we have to drop in the bitbucket. 
> > > 
> > > But, perhaps there's some secret clever use for it I am not aware of?
> > > 
> > > If you can think of some reason to keep it, speak up. ;) 
> > 
> > +1 for me. Just to be sure, bugzilla doesn't require such contact to be set?
> 
> I tested that on partner-bugzilla and it didn't care if it was unset. 
> 
> I guess the quiet way to do this is just modify the sync script so it
> drops it from all packages for new bugs, then if we want later go back
> and remove it from existing bugs if we want to. 
> 
> kevin

(The above was just a joke, +1 of course.)

Zbyszek
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