wnpp and bug owners
So, we've now got bug ownership in the BTS, and it occurs that we could
use this productively to improve the way wnpp bugs are managed. Up to
now, when people "accept" an RFP or an RFA/O by retitling it to an ITP
or an ITA respectively, sometimes they change the submitter address and
sometimes they don't. Changing the submitter address has the
disadvantage that the original submitter never gets notified when the
new package is uploaded, and both have the disadvantage that the
prospective maintainer doesn't receive mails sent to the wnpp bug.
Bug ownership should solve this problem: people ITPing and ITAing
reports should set themselves as the owner of the bug, which is the same
as saying that they're taking responsibility for fixing it, and means
that they'll get mail about the bug. (Please do NOT set yourself as a
bug owner just to get this subscription property! We'll provide a
facility for that fairly soon.)
I'd like to commit the following patch to /devel/wnpp/. Any comments?
Index: index.wml
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RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/wnpp/index.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -p -u -r1.20 index.wml
--- index.wml 24 Apr 2003 10:25:46 -0000 1.20
+++ index.wml 12 Sep 2003 22:32:07 -0000
@@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ The format of the submission should be l
<td width="90%">If you are going to adopt a package, retitle its bug
to replace `O' with `ITA', in order for other people to know the
package is being adopted and to prevent its automatic removal from the
- archive. To actually adopt the package, upload it with your name in
+ archive, and set yourself as the owner of the bug.
+ To actually adopt the package, upload it with your name in
its Maintainer: field, and put something like
<blockquote>
* New maintainer (Closes: #<var>bugnumber</var>)
@@ -232,7 +233,8 @@ The format of the submission should be l
<td width="90%">If you are going to adopt a package, retitle its bug
to replace `RFA' with `ITA', in order for other people to know the
package is being adopted and to prevent its automatic removal from the
- archive. To actually adopt the package, upload it with your name in
+ archive, and set yourself as the owner of the bug.
+ To actually adopt the package, upload it with your name in
its Maintainer: field, and close this bug once the package has been
installed.
@@ -254,8 +256,9 @@ The format of the submission should be l
<td valign="top" width="10%"><a name="howto-rfp"><b>RFP</b></a></td>
<td width="90%">If you are going to package this, retitle the bug report
to replace `RFP' with `ITP', in order for other people to know the
- program is already being packaged. Then package the software, upload
- it and close this bug once the package has been installed.
+ program is already being packaged, and set yourself as the owner of
+ the bug. Then package the software, upload it and close this bug once
+ the package has been installed.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
@@ -270,8 +273,9 @@ in the package changelog saying what you
<tt>(closes: bug#nnnnn)</tt> to it. This way the bug will be closed
automatically after the new package gets installed into the archive.
-<p><strong>Attention:</strong> You can <strong>not</strong> reassign or
-retitle bug reports by mailing the report number @bugs.debian.org,
+<p><strong>Attention:</strong> You can <strong>not</strong> reassign,
+retitle, or set the owner of bug reports by mailing the report number
+@bugs.debian.org,
<strong>nor</strong> by filing new reports. You have to send an appropriate
message to the BTS control bot — <a href="$(HOME)/Bugs/server-control">
read the instructions for it</a>!
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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