[fedora-java] java group

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:03 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
>> * Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> [2008-05-09 13:53]:
>> > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > > What would you guys think about having a subset of Java packages be
>> > > owned by a Java group?
>>
>> Tom Fitzsimmons was going to start a Java SIG.  Perhaps this can tie in
>> with that?
>
> Yeah, that makes sense.
>
>> > > [...]
>> >
>> > I think that would help with coverage of issues. The main problem is
>> > making sure that someone is taking ownership of a problem in the group
>> > so that something does not just get 'oh I thought Colin was working on
>> > it?'
>>
>> Yeah, that's my only issue as well.  And it annoys me when I file a bug
>> and see it go to xdg-maint at redhat.com or something since there's no
>> guarantee anyone's watching that alias.
>
> That is a valid concern - however, since Fedora is in general a
> community project, there's no guarantee that a bug will get a response
> even if it's assigned to an actual person.
>

s/in general a community//

I have had more than my share of RH bugs that sat in UNASSIGNED for a
long time :).. and I worked there at the time. :)

> As for knowing that someone's working on a bug - Bugzilla provides a
> mechanism for someone to take ownership of a bug (change state to
> ASSIGNED, reassign to your email address).
>
> I think in practice, having more people see issues and work on them
> collectively will work out better than individual fiefdoms.
>

That is true... as long as the workflow is clear.


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