On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 20:36 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:07:19AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 09:07 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 05:58:44PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 11:09 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> >
> > > > If for example all Bugzilla notification mails are screened for
changes
> > > > in the whiteboard field, it would be enough for someone to add it
> > > > properly once to notify the blocker/NTH committee of its existence.
> >
> > > > Other ideas:
> > > > - Screening for special keywords in comments
> > > > - Allowing to add blocker proposals to a wiki page and screen
changes
> > > > - Allow to send blocker proposals to a special e-mail address
> > > > - Provide a special web app where bug IDs can be entered
> > >
> > > I'm not a huge fan of any of these because they all require manual
> > > translation of the request, and that's something that's always
going to
> > > go wrong at some point. What the current method achieves is it feeds the
> > > nomination straight into our actual blocker handling workflow, which is
> > > entirely centred around Bugzilla. There's no manual 'handling'
of the
> > > nomination needed, it's just...done. I'd definitely like to keep
that
> > > element.
> >
> > I though it was obvious, but of course there does not need to be any
> > manual translation, but a script that automatically adds the specified
> > bugs to the tracking bug.
>
> Oh, right. Well, that makes more sense, but it seems like a lot more
> moving parts than the current set up...
From my point of view the proposed ideas are a lot easier than
setting up and maintaining a second Bugzilla instance.
That wasn't really the alternative I was positing. The current situation
is obviously supportable as it's been working well enough for several
releases.
It could stand improvement, but I'm not sure either pushing for a Fedora
bugzilla or switching to less direct, more 'tooly' system for proposing
blockers constitutes a straightforward improvement.
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