[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process

Fri Jul 22 12:37:01 CEST 2011

On 22 July 2011 11:27, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 11:04 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+>> On 19 June 2011 15:00, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>> > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 23:25 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+>> >> On 15 June 2011 22:32, Stew Benedict <stewbintn at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> >
+>> >> qa-bugs@ can't be be set as the assignee in bug reports, it should be
+>> >> made possible.
+>> >
+>> > Yes, that requires to create a account for that. Dmorgan knows, I
+>> > don't :/ ( and we should document that once the wiki will be installed
+>> > ).
+>> >
+>> >> The same for sec team, there should be a way to assign/put-in-CC.
+>> > That would requires the creation of the secteam as something more formal
+>> > than now, and for now, that's "no".
+>> > So you should better explain the need about assigning or put a group of
+>> > people in CC when you can simply put one person for that.
+>> >
+>> >
+>> > --
+>> > Michael Scherer
+>> >
+>> >
+>>
+>> Sorry, I seem to have missed this email.
+>>
+>> I can see security at groups.mageia.org can be set as bug assignee in
+>> bugzilla now, so the discussion is null at this point.
+>>
+>> About the "better explanation", the benefits of having one generic
+>> email address set as assignee in security-related bug reports, just
+>> one point, not having one point of failure, if the only person in the
+>> sec team becomes unavailable for a prolonged period of time for any
+>> reason, someone will have to trudge through the bug reports assigned
+>> to him to change the assignee field, whereas if a generic email
+>> address is used that won't be necessary.
+>
+> If the only problem is to reassign bugs, then we can write a script.
+>
+> My main worries are that given that right now, there is 1 single person
+> in the group, that change nothing. I would even add that it proves my
+> point, using alias mean that people do not know who they assign the bugs
+> to.
+>
+> So while you think there is no point of failure, but there is, and you
+> do not see nor know it.
+>
+
+Right. Sorry for wasting your time with my waffling then.
+
+> Also, assigning thing to a group of people tend to make them think
+> "someone else will do it" :/
+>
+> Finally, if the problem is "someone can leave and we have to reassign
+> bug", there is nothing special regarding security bugs to that regard,
+> and we have the need to reassign others bugs too, and yet, we do not use
+> aliases. So why make a exception just for that ?
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+>
+>
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+