On 22 July 2011 11:27, Michael Scherer <m...@zarb.org> wrote: > Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 11:04 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit : >> On 19 June 2011 15:00, Michael Scherer <m...@zarb.org> wrote: >> > Le samedi 18 juin 2011 à 23:25 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit : >> >> On 15 June 2011 22:32, Stew Benedict <stewbi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> qa-bugs@ can't be be set as the assignee in bug reports, it should be >> >> made possible. >> > >> > Yes, that requires to create a account for that. Dmorgan knows, I >> > don't :/ ( and we should document that once the wiki will be installed >> > ). >> > >> >> The same for sec team, there should be a way to assign/put-in-CC. >> > That would requires the creation of the secteam as something more formal >> > than now, and for now, that's "no". >> > So you should better explain the need about assigning or put a group of >> > people in CC when you can simply put one person for that. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Michael Scherer >> > >> > >> >> Sorry, I seem to have missed this email. >> >> I can see secur...@groups.mageia.org can be set as bug assignee in >> bugzilla now, so the discussion is null at this point. >> >> About the "better explanation", the benefits of having one generic >> email address set as assignee in security-related bug reports, just >> one point, not having one point of failure, if the only person in the >> sec team becomes unavailable for a prolonged period of time for any >> reason, someone will have to trudge through the bug reports assigned >> to him to change the assignee field, whereas if a generic email >> address is used that won't be necessary. > > If the only problem is to reassign bugs, then we can write a script. > > My main worries are that given that right now, there is 1 single person > in the group, that change nothing. I would even add that it proves my > point, using alias mean that people do not know who they assign the bugs > to. > > So while you think there is no point of failure, but there is, and you > do not see nor know it. >
Right. Sorry for wasting your time with my waffling then. > Also, assigning thing to a group of people tend to make them think > "someone else will do it" :/ > > Finally, if the problem is "someone can leave and we have to reassign > bug", there is nothing special regarding security bugs to that regard, > and we have the need to reassign others bugs too, and yet, we do not use > aliases. So why make a exception just for that ? > -- > Michael Scherer > > -- Ahmad Samir