[gentoo-dev] Re: Fw: [gentoo-core] [POLICY] Keywording/Stabilizing Bug Assignment Policy

[Stefan Schweizer <genstef@gentoo.org>]

Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:50:26 +0200
> "Stefan Schweizer" <genstef@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> As a maintainer I have to deal with many stable/keywording requests.
>> Those are bugs that generally hang around in my bugzilla queries and
>> fill my mailbox and I do not have any ability to help there or fix
>> them. Those bugmails constitute spam for my mailbox.
> 
> The bugs you open generate too much information? So basically you do
> too much work to still cope with the consequences of that very same
> work? Maybe you can get a dev to act as your secretary? (I am being
> serious.)

They generate irrelevant information for me because I cannot help with
stabling. So I would love to have the possibility to -CC me there after
siging the stabling off.

>> It would be cool to implement a keywording@gentoo.org alias just to
>> assign those bugs to so that we maintainers do not need to see them.
> 
> So this way you would avoid receiving important information?

The information is not important to me, the headlines are just filling my
mailbox

> Why don't 
> you set up bugsy not to inform you about these under [Email
> Preferences]?

This is possible? How can I separate keywording/stable and normal bugs in a
general way?

> [..] so IMHO only the package maintainer should ever (yet diligently)
> clean up so-called "old" ebuilds.

or the package maintainer can put a REMOVEOLD keyword on the bug or
something to make obvious that he wants it removed. I would love this
possibility :)

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