GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 630213
Using bugzilla for Friends of GNOME postcards tracking
Last modified: 2013-08-20 19:39:35 UTC
We'd like to use Bugzilla to track the postcards to be sent from GNOME hackers to Friends of GNOME donors. The current setup is very manual: - an automated mail is generated by the payment processing, and sent to Stormy - Stormy forwards the mail to the hacker the person was interested in receiving a card from - the hacker sends the postcard to the recipient It would be great if it was possible to easily: - create a bugzilla bug for it - select the hacker that should out the mail - close the bug when the mail is sent The bugzilla component would obviously only be accessible to Board, sysadmins and the hacker in question. Is that possible? If automation of the "mail to bugzilla" part of the process is currently complicated, we can probably do without for now.
It is pretty easy to generate a template which creates a basic bug. That would an URL basically. Then after the bug has been created, it could be assigned to the hacker (or directly when assigning the bug). However, Bugzilla requires the email addresses to be known. Meaning: you cannot assign it to a hacker if that hacker doesn't have a Bugzilla account. But Bugzilla would still be a tracker. It wouldn't automatically create the bug, nor automatically close it.
Could probably be solved by restrictive group access permissions. Bastien: Is this still wanted? Who is "we"? The board?
(In reply to comment #2) > Could probably be solved by restrictive group access permissions. > > Bastien: Is this still wanted? Who is "we"? The board? Yep. This is something we discussed some time ago, I'm not certain whether it would still be needed. CC'ing Emmanuele who's looking into FoG stuff these days.
yes, using Bugzilla to track FoG subscriptions would help me - given that I need to use my email otherwise, and that would very much likely be error prone.
sigh - and now CC'ing Tobi with the right email address.
oh. I missed that bug. It's an appealing idea to use bugzilla to track the postcards. However, we seem to do just fine at the moment. Patches to the code that tracks postcards are welcome: http://hg.cryptobitch.de/gnome-paypal/ I am closing as WONTFIX. We might reconsider the situation in a few months.