[gentoo-dev] Bugzilla triage

[gentoo-dev] Bugzilla triage

[Tom Wesley]

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Hi,

After following the calm, collected discussion of the Bug voting thread
I have a simple question.

Is it useful to anyone for a user (ie, me) regularly query recently
added bugs and add comments like "This should not be blocker", "This is
not and enhancement" were they see fit?
I can't see that this would actually achieve a huge amount, as it would
simply generate mass emails without actually doing a lot of tidying of
bugzilla.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla triage

[Chris Bainbridge]

On Wednesday 28 July 2004 08:09, Tom Wesley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After following the calm, collected discussion of the Bug voting thread
> I have a simple question.
>
> Is it useful to anyone for a user (ie, me) regularly query recently
> added bugs and add comments like "This should not be blocker", "This is
> not and enhancement" were they see fit?
> I can't see that this would actually achieve a huge amount, as it would
> simply generate mass emails without actually doing a lot of tidying of
> bugzilla.

Not that useful. If you're interested in categorising bugs apply for dev 
status and get the power to manipulate those fields yourself.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla triage

[Malte S. Stretz]

On Wednesday 28 July 2004 12:23 CET Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 July 2004 08:09, Tom Wesley wrote:
> > Is it useful to anyone for a user (ie, me) regularly query recently
> > added bugs and add comments like "This should not be blocker", "This is
> > not and enhancement" were they see fit?
> > I can't see that this would actually achieve a huge amount, as it would
> > simply generate mass emails without actually doing a lot of tidying of
> > bugzilla.
>
> Not that useful. If you're interested in categorising bugs apply for dev
> status and get the power to manipulate those fields yourself.

You don't even have to be a "real" dev.  Just ask somebody with enough karma 
(preferably somebody who already knows previous contributions of yours) if 
he would increase your Bugzilla powers, and if you've got a good past 
record you'll probably get what you need.  At least that's how it worked 
for me ;-)

Cheers,
Malte

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