And to be clear, I'm not advocating turning off assignment entirely for all projects and everyone. What I am advocating is that we (begin the process of) 'turning off' a large number of unused bugzilla features for most users, to reduce confusion and help encourage understanding of the workflow.
That is, perhaps there's a preference to see 'advanced fields' which defaults to off for everyone (and 'on' for members of the Platform team?). New users won't see fields which (a) they can't change and (b) don't matter anyway. --scott On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:40 AM, C. Scott Ananian <canan...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Matthew Flaschen > <mflasc...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> Assignment is useful to me for multiple reasons, but the most important >> are: >> >> 1. Marking things I'm definitely going to work on (while trying to avoid >> cookie-licking). Importantly, I can unmark myself as assigned, signally >> that it's "back in the pool". >> > > More agressive use of tagging (or something like it) would help here. I > also list using the 'my bugs' feature of bugzilla. But that doesn't > actually necessarily need to be reflected as 'assignment'. If there were a > way to let me add to a list of 'my bugs' without requiring assignment (or > editbugs) that would be totally cool. > > >> 2. (Less commonly) Assigning other people, most commonly on things I >> think they have the inclination and expertise to fix. >> > > FWIW, the github system seems to use @username tagging to do this. That > is, if this bug is relevant to @joeluser, the owner of the project > typically comments, "this looks like this is up your alley, @joeluser" > which sends an email notification. @joeluser then decides whether to add > this to their personal 'my bugs' list (which is only mental at this point, > since github doesn't support bug lists). > --scott > > -- (http://cscott.net) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
