[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 12:37:01 CEST 2011


On 22 July 2011 11:27, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 11:04 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>> On 19 June 2011 15:00, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
>> > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 23:25 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>> >> On 15 June 2011 22:32, Stew Benedict <stewbintn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> qa-bugs@ can't be be set as the assignee in bug reports, it should be
>> >> made possible.
>> >
>> > Yes, that requires to create a account for that. Dmorgan knows, I
>> > don't :/ ( and we should document that once the wiki will be installed
>> > ).
>> >
>> >> The same for sec team, there should be a way to assign/put-in-CC.
>> > That would requires the creation of the secteam as something more formal
>> > than now, and for now, that's "no".
>> > So you should better explain the need about assigning or put a group of
>> > people in CC when you can simply put one person for that.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Michael Scherer
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Sorry, I seem to have missed this email.
>>
>> I can see security at groups.mageia.org can be set as bug assignee in
>> bugzilla now, so the discussion is null at this point.
>>
>> About the "better explanation", the benefits of having one generic
>> email address set as assignee in security-related bug reports, just
>> one point, not having one point of failure, if the only person in the
>> sec team becomes unavailable for a prolonged period of time for any
>> reason, someone will have to trudge through the bug reports assigned
>> to him to change the assignee field, whereas if a generic email
>> address is used that won't be necessary.
>
> If the only problem is to reassign bugs, then we can write a script.
>
> My main worries are that given that right now, there is 1 single person
> in the group, that change nothing. I would even add that it proves my
> point, using alias mean that people do not know who they assign the bugs
> to.
>
> So while you think there is no point of failure, but there is, and you
> do not see nor know it.
>

Right. Sorry for wasting your time with my waffling then.

> Also, assigning thing to a group of people tend to make them think
> "someone else will do it" :/
>
> Finally, if the problem is "someone can leave and we have to reassign
> bug", there is nothing special regarding security bugs to that regard,
> and we have the need to reassign others bugs too, and yet, we do not use
> aliases. So why make a exception just for that ?
> --
> Michael Scherer
>
>

-- 
Ahmad Samir


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