[Wplug-web] Re: your mail

[Zach Paine]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:02:02 Jonathan Billings wrote:

>snip<

> What I hope is people with privs to write to the
> repositories
> will assume the tickets, make comments, etc.  Eventually, I'd like to
> have
> it so people can vote on which bug is the most important to fix, that way
> non-designers have some input into what's fixed.  

Ok cool.  I will take as much wplug-web work as I can handle.  It seems
like the voting system is already in place; is that true?

> I'd also like to be able to set up a mail address on wplug.org that will
> feed bugs into bugzilla.  Either that, or do some direct insertions from
> other parts of the web site.  My goal here is to be able to have the
> non-bugzilla sites have 'comments/suggestions/gripes' pages where someone
> could enter info, and it'd be inserted as a new bug on bugzilla.

I don't know if this is a default feature of bugzilla, but debian's,
gnome's, and most bugtracking systems I've been involved with have a setup
where each bug is given a numerical address @bugs.whatever.com


>snip<
> 
> Really what needs to be decided is what kind of structure is needed, or
> what is necessary.  We could just go on a volunteer basis, where people
> go
> and take what they think they can handle.  I currently don't have it set
> up where people get whiney email when a bug assigned to you isn't being
> worked on, mainly because I think it's annoying, and I get it enough from
> work.  If we want to be structured, or if anyone wants to be a
> maintainer,
> feel free to volunteer! (I'm currently the maintainer for bugzilla, so
> I'll get notified if it gets bugs.)  

What does a maintainer position involve?  Obviously I'm going to contribute
as much as possible to wplug-web.  At the moment I don't think that
assigning bugs to people is necessary.  In the future though it may be as
particulars of the website, bugzilla, or wplug in general required more
specialized expertise, etc.

> Currently, i can see wplug using this for managing the web-site stuff,
> but
> if wplug ever plans on building software, it could work there.  I'm
> currently the bugzilla superman with all sorts of powers, but I can grant
> some powers to others (such as creating groups, products, components,
> users, configuration).  I should probably give one other person
> superpowers, just in case I get run over by a bus.

It could in theory be used for organizational matters as well.. maybe a
stretch.  At the moment I just want to be able to assign bugs and change
their status.  

> One thing to ask: do you think we should have people submit bk patches to
> bugzilla?  I don't really like the idea.  But it might be nice for people
> who submitted them, that way they can see that people are working on
> them.
> 
Why don't you like it?  I kind of like the idea myself.  It could save
people w/ priv's a lot of work at times.

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