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<B>andre999</B>
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<I>Mon Oct 25 22:35:38 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>Ahmad Samir a écrit :
><i> On 25 October 2010 19:44, Michael Scherer<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote:
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</I>>><i> Le lundi 25 octobre 2010 à 19:29 +0200, Luca Berra a écrit :
</I>>><i>
</I>>>><i> this is a suggestion i already made with mandriva but it landed nowhere,
</I>>>><i> let's try again.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> At the moment we have 1to1 relationship in all tools between maintainer
</I>>>><i> and package. But for some packages we have more than one people willing
</I>>>><i> to work on that package. Besides, for some critical package it may be
</I>>>><i> useful having more than one person responsible for it.
</I>>>><i> Also someone might be interested in helping on package foo, but feels
</I>>>><i> too much inexperienced to take full reponsability for it. Peer review is
</I>>>><i> important.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> The idea is not associating a package with a single maintainer, but
</I>>>><i> associate each package to a maintainer-group, say
</I>>>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">NAME at packages.mageia.org</A>, and let maintainers subscribe to package
</I>>>><i> maintenance.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> this would result that in case a ticket is opened in bugzilla vs
</I>>>><i> package, all interested parties would be notified, and start working on
</I>>>><i> a solution. (this might require a bit of coordination, but maybe just
</I>>>><i> assigning the bug to a real person is enough to note someone is taking
</I>>>><i> care of the problem)
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i> +1 to the idea.
</I>>><i> I just wonder how it articulate on bugzilla side ( ie, we should try to
</I>>><i> avoid having a patch on bugzilla side, as this is usually causing
</I>>><i> trouble ).
</I>>><i> Ie, if I want to take care of a bug report, I would likely assign it to
</I>>><i> me, no ?
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Wouldn't it better to use cc for that ?
</I>>><i> --
</I>>><i> Michael Scherer
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>><i> Well, if a maintainer changes to status to ASSIGNED, we can assume
</I>><i> he's working on it.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> QA team, lately, had a sort of a rule, when one of them was working on
</I>><i> a bug he'd post to the report to say so so as not to duplicate work;
</I>><i> the same was with sec team. That's a good way IMHO.
</I>><i>
</I>
Good idea. This approach is also used by transators in various projects.
It also might be a good to have a designated principle maintainer, in
the maintainer group for a package.
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