[Mageia-dev] maintainer groups

Mon Oct 25 20:09:52 CEST 2010

On 25 October 2010 19:44, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le lundi 25 octobre 2010 à 19:29 +0200, Luca Berra a écrit :
+>> this is a suggestion i already made with mandriva but it landed nowhere,
+>> let's try again.
+>>
+>> At the moment we have 1to1 relationship in all tools between maintainer
+>> and package. But for some packages we have more than one people willing
+>> to work on that package. Besides, for some critical package it may be
+>> useful having more than one person responsible for it.
+>> Also someone might be interested in helping on package foo, but feels
+>> too much inexperienced to take full reponsability for it. Peer review is
+>> important.
+>>
+>> The idea is not associating a package with a single maintainer, but
+>> associate each package to a maintainer-group, say
+>> NAME at packages.mageia.org, and let maintainers subscribe to package
+>> maintenance.
+>>
+>> this would result that in case a ticket is opened in bugzilla vs
+>> package, all interested parties would be notified, and start working on
+>> a solution. (this might require a bit of coordination, but maybe just
+>> assigning the bug to a real person is enough to note someone is taking
+>> care of the problem)
+>
+> +1 to the idea.
+> I just wonder how it articulate on bugzilla side ( ie, we should try to
+> avoid having a patch on bugzilla side, as this is usually causing
+> trouble ).
+> Ie, if I want to take care of a bug report, I would likely assign it to
+> me, no ?
+>
+> Wouldn't it better to use cc for that ?
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+>
+>
+
+Well, if a maintainer changes to status to ASSIGNED, we can assume
+he's working on it.
+
+QA team, lately, had a sort of a rule, when one of them was working on
+a bug he'd post to the report to say so so as not to duplicate work;
+the same was with sec team. That's a good way IMHO.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+