[Pkg-samba-maint] personalized and administrative bugzilla accounts

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Björn JACKE (bj at SerNet.DE):

The current activity peak is of course my yearly bug triage that, for
a strange reason, happens during SambaXP..:)

> Or asking the other way round: is it ever required that
> pkg-samba-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org needs to log in to bugzilla? If not we
> might just "disable" that account, so that it will still serve as a
> distribution account, even bugs can be assigned to it but it cannot be used
> actively. We did the same with all the QA mail addresses in bugzilla for
> example.
> 
> If you want to point out that you are from the Debian packaging team you can
> also add that info into your realname field like
> "Foo Bar (Debian pkg Team) <foo.bar at debian.org>"
> 
> Let me know what you think about this :-)


There are two reasons for us to use this method:
- bugs opened by the team address can then be manipulated by any
member of the packaging team (IIRC, some actions can only be done by
the bug submitter...or maybe also by some ppl with specific privileges)

- automated mails (including comments) are then directed to the
package maintenance list and not to our individual addresses. This is
probably the most important point. Package maintenance teams are not
guaranteed to always have the same  members over time and it seems to
be a good idea that comments for a bug reported by a team member
several years ago are automatically directed and seen by other team
members, even if the original submitter is MIA in any way

- we are doing this for 3 years now..:-)

Of course, if there are other ways to achieve the same results, we
(speaking in name of the maintenance team) would be happy to use them.


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