On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 15:41 +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: > Team, > There's been some discussion (and confusion) in Ubuntu about the > creation of the "Ubuntu Gaming Team". This team is an outgrowth of the > Ubuntu Marketing Team, and is mostly focused on promotion and > documentation of games. As discussions continued (1), Philip raised > some interesting points about the weaknesses of the current team in > tracking bugs in Ubuntu: > > Philip Wyett wrote: > > A team that is subscribed bugs is what I was after, though maybe put > > slightly wrongly as no user intervention is actually needed over and > > above reporting a bug. What I would like for Ubuntu game package bugs > > is: > > > > - Create a 'games-swat' team for the triage of game bugs in Ubuntu. > > - Create a 'games-swat-bugs' mailing list. > > - All bugs reported against game packages in Ubuntu are subscribed to > > team and email sent to the 'games-swat-bugs' mailing list. > > - People join the 'games-swat' team. > > - People subscribe to the 'games-swat-bugs' mailing list which using > > filters will allow quick isolation of game bugs that a person can then > > look at and maybe assist with. > > > > This is similar to how X Swat works and I feel would be a good way for > > those 'volunteers' interested in helping with game bugs in Ubuntu to get > > exactly what they want and nothing else for triage or fixing. How this > > interacts with Debian is a further discussion but may increase the speed > > of bugs reports over to Debian and possibly fixes. It may also encourage > > people to develop directly as part of the joint Debian/Ubuntu > > development team. > > So, I noticed that Evgeni registered the pkg-games team on Launchpad > (2). I'm curious what others think about taking the following > (separable) steps: > > a) Setting pkg-games-devel@l.a.d.o as the contact for the team > > This would send any launchpad mail generated for the team (from bug > subscriptions, PPA updates, etc.) to the mailing list, rather than team > members. > > b) Setting the team as a bug contact for all the packages maintained by > the team. > > This would generate bugmail for any bugs reported against Ubuntu, > and provide a bug report summary (3) for review by any team members > looking for Ubuntu bugs. If done without (a) above, such bugmail would > be sent to each team member individually, rather than to a list. > > optional (c): > If most of the members of the team would prefer that > pkg-games-devel@l.a.d.o not be used also for Ubuntu bugmail, and also > support the use of this launchpad team to track packages in Ubuntu, it > is certainly possible to create a pkg-games@launchpad address for this > purpose instead. > I would support the optional (c) and create a separate LP list for bug mail and if all bug mail for game packages were automatically sent to the list it would be great as I can then filter against the list and see the mail more easily and react too it where necessary. Regards Phil
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