I agree that this is a real concern. It may not be happening very often so far, but it's a seriously bad feeling to find that someone else has gone ahead and done the same work you were making headway on (regardless of intent).
I think if it's possible on github, we should have a way for any contributor to assign a bug to themself. We should also have guidelines about what happens if someone assigned to a bug goes missing for several months and doesn't respond to communication. We should probably also write down what expectations go along with assignment (for example, I've used assigning-to-myself as a way of signaling "I intend to work on this", but more recently people have implied that you should only take a bug when actively working on it. Either is ok as long as it's made explicit). Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://catamorphism.org/ * Often in error, never in doubt "Not a riot, it's a rebellion." -- Boots Riley "Attention Bros and Trolls: When I call out your spew, I'm not angry, I'm defiant." -- Reg Braithwaite _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
