Hello sysadmins et al.
Some KDE contributors run into a pain point whereby their commits with
the BUG keyword do not automatically close Bugzilla tickets because the
email address on the commit does not match the email address of any
Bugzilla accounts. When this happens, someone (them, me, Christoph,
someone else) needs to notice and manually close the bug report, which
is an annoying waste of time and can be easily overlooked.
This can happen in various circumstances:
1. The contributor is new and has a GitLab/KDE Identity account for
submitting MRs, but does not have a Bugzilla account
2. The contributor is a veteran and has multiple KDE-related email
address but only has one Bugzilla account (and hence, only one email
address on file)
3. The contributor commits code to KDE using both personal and work
email addresses depending on if the work is sponsored or work-related,
but only has one Bugzilla account (and hence, only one email address on
file)
In cases #2 and #3, we can ask those people to create dummy Bugzilla
accounts just to get their other email addresses in the system, but that
feels pretty inelegant and requires manual action after running into
this problem, and it doesn't help case #1 at all.
Could we consider removing the check to make sure the commit matches the
email address of a Bugzilla account?
Nate
