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
>
*like using

> 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.
>

Fixing 'my bugs' to not require assignment would also reduce the
cookie-licking problem, so I think it would have beneficial social effects
(beside reducing the barrier to entry for non-editbugs-having contributors).
  --scott

(http://cscott.net)
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