On 5 December 2012 02:51, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 4 December 2012 17:28, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina <zeroch...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On 12/04/2012 12:06 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > >> Or maybe we can just agree that common sense rules all, and we always > >> set the proxied maintainer as assignee, and the proxy maintainer as CC.. > > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml?style=printable > > > > This page exists, but doesn't really mention anything about proper bug > > assignment. I know a lot of you have been doing this a very long time > > and there is a 'standard' way of doing things, but for us new guys if > > there is no documentation there is no policy. > > Bug-wranglers are supposed to do that by default. When you see a > non-gentoo developer in metadata.xml, the default action is to assume > his is > the real maintainer and the bugs should be assigned to him. Such > guidance should be documented in the bug-wranglers project page and > not on the > proxy-maintainers one. > > Actually, as I have been arguing elsewhere, scattering policies over multiple documents is not helpful. So this should be documented in devmanual. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
