GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 507311
Add a Bugzilla component to catch Bug Buddy submissions
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:57:06 UTC
I was discussing this idea with Andre on IRC today... I propose setting up a new Bugzilla component for the Evolution product exclusively for catching Bug Buddy submissions and then configuring the evolution.desktop file to submit bugs to this new component. Epiphany does this and they call their component "BugBuddyBugs". Assuming other distros get behind the default desktop configuration we ship (Fedora 9 will), over time we should see some real benefits from this: 1) We can isolate the constant flood of Bug Buddy submissions lacking debugging symbols from the "real" bugs. Once triaged, the Bug Buddy submissions should either be closed or reassigned to the appropriate product and component. 2) Searching for open bugs in the rest of the components becomes more useful as the confirmed-to-untriaged bug ratio increases.
Created attachment 102141 [details] [review] Proposed patch Assuming we go with "BugBuddyBugs" as the Component name...
I agree guys. Go ahead Matt.
"BugBuddyBugs" it is, then. Component created and tested (see bug #507574). Committed to trunk (revision #34765) and gnome-2-20 branch (revision #34766). I'm already pushing updates for Fedora 7, 8 and 9 and will encourage other distros to follow suit.
Andre: I set the default assignee for the BugBuddyBugs component to <evolution-shell-maintainers@ximian.com> for lack of a better option. Is there a GNOME BugSquad address that would be more appropriate?
use "Triage Team <triage@ximian.com>", that was the one used several years ago. though obviously a triage team does not exist. :-P
(In reply to comment #5) > use "Triage Team <triage@ximian.com>", that was the one used several years ago. > though obviously a triage team does not exist. :-P Done.