[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] [Mageia-bugsquad] Bugzilla mass assignee ping

Fri Jul 6 16:49:59 CEST 2012

(removed -discuss from the discussion)
+
+On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Marja van Waes <marja11 at xs4all.nl> wrote:
+> On 06/07/2012 14:22, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> Maybe it works better in upgraded Bugzilla :)
+
+No, it works in the current setup.
+
+>> A monthly (or every 2 months) reminder of bugs fitting in your above
+>> query would sound sane, if it's sent only to the assignee. If not,
+>> then the whole mass ping itself should not be done either.
+>
+> Waiting one month to find out whether a bug was assigned correctly is too
+> long, in my opinion, unless the assignee is busy gathering enough
+> information to be able to tell.
+>
+> I think we should ping bug reports for which we haven't got a confirmation
+> that the assignment was correct after two weeks, except when the assignee
+> shows activity in the report.
+>
+> If the assignee thinks the bug was assigned correctly, he can put OK on the
+> whiteboard or set status to ASSIGNED, and he won't show up in this search
+> again, so he won't be pinged for this reason again.
+
+We can make a bi-monthly check that will only whine to the assignees,
+and not others. That makes at most (for the unlucky ones), two mails a
+month summarizing what they are assigned to and that it has not been
+checked out of the query.
+
+Shall we try that?
+