278320 - Bugzilla product should have [e-mail] default assignees

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Right now, most Bugzilla components are *actually* unowned, even though they say
they're owned by justdave.

Instead, we should do like Mozilla has, and have things like
[e-mail]. Then, people could watch certain components, and it
wouldn't look like things were actually being worked on.

Their names can still be "nobody's working on this, feel free to take it". :-)

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

ok, this is done with my components except for the ones I'm actively (or should
be actively) participating in.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Cool! :-)

I suspect that myk will at least want to set the "UI" component to
"[e-mail]" or something like that, and maybe a few other of
his components, also...? (Myk?) :-)

I think another important thing that we should do is triage the current bugs
that are assigned to you, justdave, and re-assign them to
[e-mail]. :-)

I think that we can probably assume that if anything is UNCONFIRMED, you are
probably not personally working on it, so we can probably mass-change those.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

(In reply to comment #2)

> I think another important thing that we should do is triage the current bugs
> that are assigned to you, justdave, and re-assign them to
> [e-mail]. :-)

I will take care of that sometime after we release. :)  There are some bugs that
I intend to keep (probably not many though) and I don't want those getting lost
in the shuffle.

> I think that we can probably assume that if anything is UNCONFIRMED, you are
> probably not personally working on it, so we can probably mass-change those.

That's probably a safe assumption.

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

From the developers list:

"Right. You can do this for all my components except UI as well, since I
haven't been strongly owning the others for a while now.

-myk"

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, Myk's are done.  The only other components I see that this should probably
be done to are Zach's.... 

Comment 6

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Generally, I'm not a big fan of using [e-mail] type owners since
it eliminates any sense of ownership at all. On the whole, I think some
ownership is better then no ownership, no matter what form it takes. While I
clearly have not been much of an owner in recent times, that's a subject for an
upcoming blog post and I'll address that as a separate issue. 

That being said, if you want to do my components, feel free. 

Comment 7

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

zach -- I'd like checksetup to have an [e-mail] assignee, so
that I could watch it and you could also watch it. Then we could take the bugs
that we were actually going to work on. There could be basically two default
assignees instead of one, basically.

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This is done for the components that it applies to.

Comment 9

[timeless]

Administration   	 [e-mail]
Attachments & Requests 	[e-mail]
Bug Import/Export & Moving 	[e-mail]
Bugzilla-General 	[e-mail]
Creating/Changing Bugs 	[e-mail]
Documentation 	[e-mail]
Email Notifications 	[e-mail]
Installation & Upgrading 	[e-mail]
Query/Bug List 	[e-mail]
Reporting/Charting 	[e-mail]
User Accounts 	[e-mail]

Comment 10

[timeless]

eep, gerv isn't a generic :)