Re: automatically grant watchbugzilla and watchcommits?

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Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue October 14 2008, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:00:25AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>>> When I brought this up, Bastien Nocera brought up security bugs and not
>>>> wanting random people to be CC'd before a security bug is resolved.  How
>>>> should we deal with this?
>> I think the correct way to deal with this is that watchbugzilla should not
>> automatically CC user to bugs for the component, but instead modify the
>> user's bugzilla account to watch some special address like, eg for package
>> pango, pango-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxx  And the product pango changed to have
>> pango-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx as default assignee or Q/A contact.  This way we
>> avoid the security problem issue, as well as those inbox-filling mass
>> changes to remove people from CC lists or to change default assignee of the
>> product.
> 
> I do still not understand what the issue is and how this would resolve it, 
> e.g. if nobody who watches pango-bugs gets informed about security bugs, how 
> will the maintainer of the package get informed?

You're right.  So maybe only use the alias for Q/A and let the default
assignee be the maintainer(s).

> Nevertheless your proposal would fix the other issues you described. I would 
> only change to add pango-bugs to both the assignee and CC, to make sure 
> everyone stays in the loop, once the package is assigned to some individual.
> 
> Oh, but there is also a problem about your proposal. Afaik in this case, the 
> bugs do not appear on the Bugzilla Frontpage and/or the "My Bugs" search. Can 
> it made sure, that they do?

I thought "My Bugs" only shows bugs I opened or the ones assigned to me, not
all bugs I'm CC'ed on?


behdad

> Regards,
> Till
> 

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