[oe] Bugzilla Status (pitiful, penoso, penible, bedauerlich)

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

On Friday 27 March 2009 15:19:39 Cliff Brake wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
>
> <mickey at vanille-media.de> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 25.03.2009, 12:04 +0100 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> >> On 25-03-09 11:14, Andrea Adami wrote:
> >> > Bump
> >>
> >> As I said, let's close it down.
> >
> > -1000. Lets continue cleaning it up.
>
> Building on Chris's push for package maintainers -- perhaps we need to
> insist on style guidelines for bugs as well where we prefix the bug
> title with the component name (like repo commits), or create separate
> components for every directory in recipes, machines, and perhaps a
> catch-all for core files.  Then the maintainer for the component could
> decide if the bug is valid, and close it if not.  If bugs collect for
> a component, and nothing gets done, then we need to search for a
> maintainer, or mark the recipe unmaintained.  I guess the difficult
> part is all this needs active management.  Somehow if we can get bugs
> assigned to the right people (listed in the maintainers file), then
> maybe it would work better.

Good thinking. I actually love the GNOME folks bugzilla interface. They run 
you through a set of questions / choices. That way it takes a bit longer to 
create a bug but it's more structured.

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