On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 20:36 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:07:19AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 09:07 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 05:58:44PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 11:09 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > I'm not a huge fan of any of these because they all require manual > > > > translation of the request, and that's something that's always going to > > > > go wrong at some point. What the current method achieves is it feeds the > > > > nomination straight into our actual blocker handling workflow, which is > > > > entirely centred around Bugzilla. There's no manual 'handling' of the > > > > nomination needed, it's just...done. I'd definitely like to keep that > > > > element. > > > > > > I though it was obvious, but of course there does not need to be any > > > manual translation, but a script that automatically adds the specified > > > bugs to the tracking bug. > > > > Oh, right. Well, that makes more sense, but it seems like a lot more > > moving parts than the current set up... > > From my point of view the proposed ideas are a lot easier than > setting up and maintaining a second Bugzilla instance. That wasn't really the alternative I was positing. The current situation is obviously supportable as it's been working well enough for several releases. It could stand improvement, but I'm not sure either pushing for a Fedora bugzilla or switching to less direct, more 'tooly' system for proposing blockers constitutes a straightforward improvement. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
