On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 04:38:18PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 01:13 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > > Nevertheless it seems to be easy to workaround, for example by using the > > whiteboard as an additional way to propose blocker/NTH bugs. It should > > even be possible to write an additional service that scans for bugs with > > the respective whiteboard field and adding the bug to the respective > > tracker bug. > > The problem with the whiteboard field is it's too vulnerable to error: > you can typo easily, and anyone putting anything else there can > intentionally or inadvertently overwrite what anyone else has put in it. > It's such a fragile field I'm never happy relying on it...even using it > for accepted/rejected status as we do now was meant to be a stopgap. If for example all Bugzilla notification mails are screened for changes in the whiteboard field, it would be enough for someone to add it properly once to notify the blocker/NTH committee of its existence. > Adjusting the process for nominating blockers is a legitimate way out of > the problem, of course, but I don't think using the whiteboard field is > a good alternative. Any other ideas? :) Other ideas: - Screening for special keywords in comments - Allowing to add blocker proposals to a wiki page and screen changes - Allow to send blocker proposals to a special e-mail address - Provide a special web app where bug IDs can be entered Regards Till -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
