On 05:30 Wed 26 May     , Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> To follow up on that, we could add some language to the point that if
> it takes more than X days (say a week) then assignment to maintainers
> proper should go through. This could be especially important when bugs
> do seem relevant but should be looked at by someone (or a freakin' whole
> "herd") with somewhat more intimate knowledge of the package in
> question.
> 
  Another idea crossed my mind when I was bug-wrangling the other day,
that could help, until Robin's "automatic assignment computation of
bugs"[1] gets implemented and becomes reality. What if we create a
partial-bug-wranglers mail alias, write a cron job to calculate
statistics from from the bug-wranglers queue and send mails to that
alias according to various rules eg. to send mail when the queue passed
a limit of bugs eg. 100 or 200 unassigned, or statistics about how many
bugs that were reported before more than a week are still in the queue.
  This way, people like me, who are willing to do partial bug-wrangling,
they just add themselves in the alias and get activated only when the
queue is huge or there are many old bugs around. The mails could work
well as a reminder and we avoid the huge bug-wranlgers mail traffic when we
monitor them in bugzie. I don't have time now, to implement any of this,
I don't know even if it's a good idea, but if you like it, I could try
to write a working script in some weeks (thanks to Jeremy(darkside) for showing
me the pybugz magic and Christian(idl0r) for the curl magic).


[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/66279

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