Re: Gnome-bugsquad digest, Vol 1 #212 - 5 msgs

[Elijah P Newren <newren math utah edu>]

Hi,

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:06:56PM -0400, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > I have a problem handling the Nautilus bugzilla emails. Given that I
> > have a lot of stuff to do, and that I have to actually hack on
> > Nautilus also there is just no way I can keep up with the spew from
> > nautilus-maint....an average of 42.6 bugzilla emails a day for
> > nautilus and eel...
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas how this could be improved?
>
> What Nautilus needs, probably more than any other application, is a
> QA/bugsquad person who is working closely with you and Dave doing triage,
> someone who understands the development process well enough to elevate bugs to
> your attention so you don't have to look at every single change in every
> single bug.
>
> The technical details on how to flag those elevated bugs... are less
> important than the need for a human...

As someone just doing general bug triaging, I can definitely understand
the massively overwhelming amount of mail that nautilus has to
generate.  I agree with John here, and have a simple proposal for the
technical details on how to elevate those important bugs.  I'd suggest
creating another mail alias (nautilus-priority or something similar),
which is only added to bugs which are deemed important.  Then, once
enough people are on the nautilus-maint list, you and Dave (and perhaps
others?) are removed from it.  Then you only get spam from important
bugs, but there's still people to take care of the general maintainer
list bugs.

Another option [that could perhaps be used in addition to the above]:
since nautilus-maint sounds so huge that it may be hard to find
volunteers for, is to get rid of the nautilus-maint alias, but create
several smaller aliases (e.g. nautilus-desktop-maint,
nautilus-thumbnails-maint, etc.)

Does this sound reasonable?

Elijah

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