On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:03 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
* Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> [2008-05-09 13:53]:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > What would you guys think about having a subset of Java packages be
> > owned by a Java group?
Tom Fitzsimmons was going to start a Java SIG. Perhaps this can tie in
with that?
Yeah, that makes sense.
> > [...]
>
> I think that would help with coverage of issues. The main problem is
> making sure that someone is taking ownership of a problem in the group
> so that something does not just get 'oh I thought Colin was working on
> it?'
Yeah, that's my only issue as well. And it annoys me when I file a bug
and see it go to xdg-maint(a)redhat.com or something since there's no
guarantee anyone's watching that alias.
That is a valid concern - however, since Fedora is in general a
community project, there's no guarantee that a bug will get a response
even if it's assigned to an actual person.
As for knowing that someone's working on a bug - Bugzilla provides a
mechanism for someone to take ownership of a bug (change state to
ASSIGNED, reassign to your email address).
I think in practice, having more people see issues and work on them
collectively will work out better than individual fiefdoms.