Nobody interested? On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:31:18PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > When looking at the infra after eol issue, Toshio made me aware that > nothing special is done for bugzilla in eol branches. Maybe it would > be nice to have bugs filled against old branches associated with > another product, such that they are easier to triage, and owner > doesn't get those bugs automatically? As a disclaimer I know nothing > about both the technical issues and the organizational issues involved > by that proposal. The idea could be along (provided it is technically > feasible): > > * when a bug is filled against an old release in the current fedora > product, the product is automatically changed to 'fedora EOL' > (or 'fedora Legacy' if that product is to be reused), which means > that they don't necessarily go to the same mail adress than current > releases. Also there is an automatic answer for those bugs, along: > > 'You are reporting a bug against an unsupported fedora release, you > are urged to upgrade, and retry with the new release'. > > * the owner of this product is the owner of one of the old releases, > for example could be the owner of F7 currently. That way, if this > release is orphaned by the maintainer, he won't get bug reports > for the old branch anymore. I would even suggest mass orphaning such > that the default is that the maintainer doesn't get those bugs. > > > Then people interested in triaging bugs for old releases could be > subscribed to the adress all the product bugs are forwarded to, > such that they can triage the bugs. > > > Of course this would make more sense in case the infra was left > open for old releases, as there would be people specifically interested > in triaging those bugs and also interested in becoming maintainers > of old branches, but even if the proposal to keep infra open for old > branches is rejected --- and I am almost sure that it will be > rejected --- it could still be something relevant to do. > > Thoughts? > > > > PS: tell me if this is better to ask that kind of question on the infra > list. > > -- > Pat > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
