Jordan Mantha wrote: >>> >>> >> Please don't interpret it that way :) As I replied to Scott, if the bug >> is not handled by someone who can upload to Ubuntu then it's fair to say >> that nobody is working on a fix in Ubuntu. >> > > This is just not true. In Universe we have a great number of people working > on bugs that are not able to upload. These people use status, > subscriptions, and assignments to get their work sponsored. Even in Main > there are quite a number of people who aren't in ubuntu-dev that work on > bugs. Your statement is only true in the sense that a developer must touch > it at some point to upload the fix, but the work is often enough not done > by the developer. > Right, and that's the only sense in which I intended it (though I can see I have been too terse). We are trying to make a 1-dimesional setting field fit a range of situations here. A bug tracker that is used by many projects of different sizes will never fit everyone perfectly, but that common bug tracker also has its advantages.
If we want a certain group of people who write code but are not MOTU or core-dev to be able to set the whole range of status settings then we can set up a team that gives that access. I agree that people can write valuable code without doing .deb packaging for example. > Bottom line, people who are assigned to a bug need to be able to modify it. > If you want to control who can be assign bugs then that's a slightly different > matter, but there *has* to be a workflow that allows for non-developers to > work on bugs. Anything less would severely affect Universe and probably > Main as well. > We have not made any changes to bug assignment (though I have my own opinions about that). I agree that we should encourage more people to work on bug fixes. If this change makes that more difficult then we need to find solutions to that. Henrik -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
