[oe] OE Bugzilla Future

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
> On 03/18/2011 12:57 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>
>> 2011/3/17 Richard Purdie<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 19:10 +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm in favor of keeping it, cleaning it up, and improve
>>>> the integration with patchwork / git. Throwing it away
>>>> would be a very bad sign to all those countless people
>>>> who've gone through the pains of actually working with
>>>> the bugtracker.
>>>
>>> The simple question is who is actually going to sort out the mess its
>>> in?
>>>
>>> Who is going to look after it on a continuing basis?
>>>
>>> If there isn't ownership, nothing is going to change.
>>
>> Actually I feel the real problem is that:
>> - people did not want to get bugs assigned to them (at least that was
>> what someone told me in the past)
>> - we're lacking a good notion of package or recipe ownership, so even
>> if we had someone acting as a bug manager, (s)he would have a hard
>> time to find out who to assign an issue to.
>>
>> and of course it takes discipline to look at regular intervals in the
>> bug tracker to see if there are issues that affect the recipes you
>> feel responsible for.
>> A discipline that few people have and that is also easy to forget if
>> there is only very rarely something for you.
>>
>> So it is more of a process issue.
>> (btw this may be something that could be picked up by the TSC).
>
> The feeling of the TSC thus far has been "where are the active volunteers to
> use BTS (bugzilla, whatever)".  This far in the thread I count one.
>

Yes I think if there is enough interest to take this up probably it
would make sense to form
a interest group and let the group work details on process and
maintenance an recommend
something.

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> Tom Rini
> Mentor Graphics Corporation
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