[squeak-dev] bugs.squeak.org: default owners of tickets

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 10:10:46 UTC 2015


On 11 September 2015 at 20:05, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> Hi Eliot,
>
> I'm not sure how it's configured, but do we have a VM category, and the
> issues are getting automatically assigned to me. The Mantis tracker is
> quite helpful for VM issues that cannot be immediately resolved on the
> mailing lists.

My apologies for leaving you off the list, Dave. Indeed, we already
have a VM category, and you are its default owner.

frank

> Dave
>
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Mantis lets us configure default owners of tickets for various
>>> subprojects. It's a bit.... out of date. (A "default owner" of a
>>> subproject means that if you don't explicitly assign a ticket to
>>> someone, this is the person to whom you implicitly assign the ticket.)
>>>
>>> Any, Box-Admins both point to KenCausey, who must be tired of
>>> receiving the occasional mail on these topics.
>>>
>>> Here are our current mappings:
>>> Any: KenCausey
>>> Box-Admins: KenCausey
>>> CI: FrankShearar
>>> Documentation: casey
>>> Games: asm
>>> IRC: frankcag
>>> Monticello: avi
>>> News: gcorriga
>>> Release Packaging: FrankShearar
>>> SqueakMap: gokr
>>> ToDo: RalphJohnson
>>> Traits: dvf
>>> www.squeak.org: KarlRamberg
>>>
>>
>> I hope we could add VM and I could be an owner or Dave could be.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm guessing they're so out of date because we tend not to use
>>> bugs.squeak.org very much (sadly).
>>>
>>> I'm happy to stay default owner on my subprojects, unless someone else
>>> would like to take the can. But certainly there are some projects that
>>> really ought to change owner.
>>>
>>> Being the default owner doesn't imply that you have to fix the bugs!
>>> It just means there's a clear point of contact: someone will
>>> definitely see the bug report because it lands in their mailbox.
>>>
>>> The traffic from being an owner is... minimal. As in "because almost
>>> no one uses the bugtracker you'll likely never see a mail" :)
>>>
>>> frank
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>> best, Eliot
>>
>>
>
>
>


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