Thoughts on Bugzilla

[Mike Massonnet]

Hi Brian,

Le Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:34:20 -0800,
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> a écrit :

> Mike Massonnet wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have some remarks concerning Bugzilla:
> > 
> > - The link "My Bugs" does not list the bugs where you are CC, in
> > fact it only lists the bugs where you are assignee or reporter.
> 
> Right.  Bugs that you're CCed on aren't "your bugs."  Just bugs that
> are assigned to you are "yours."

Too bad, I prefer to list bugs where I CC too, and as Nick suggested, I
have a search that I called "My Bugs" so that makes two My Bugs links :)

> > - I don't receive all new bugs via the xfce-bugs at x.o mailing-list.
> 
> You shouldn't be.  xfce-bugs@ is not for all bugs; it's for
> unassigned and "communal" bugs.

Ok.

> >   Otherwise any pointers at how to get noticed by new bugs are
> > welcome.
> 
> I think Nick has watches set up so he gets mail for everything; you 
> could ask him how he's done this.
> 
> > - The component Xfce: xfce4-terminal can be dropped as it has been
> >   moved to svn at archive.
> 
> Not really -- all bugs have to have an assigned component, and you
> can't delete bugs.  So some new 'orphaned' component would have to be
> created. Not sure it's worth it, unless people have been filing
> Terminal bugs there.

It's mostly about to resolve the Terminal vs Xfce4-terminal ambiguity.

Mike