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

[Björn JACKE]

Hi Christian,

On 2012-05-09 at 22:08 +0200 Christian PERRIER sent off:
> 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)

you should be able to manipulate everything even if you are logged in with your
personal account, can't you? If not, what are you *really* missing here?


> - 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

all of you can open bugs as "private" persons, if you open bugs as package
maintainers, why don't you just add pkg-samba-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org to
CC and this important point is solved straight forward. Except for highly
security related bugs all bugs in our bugzilla are open so that bug visibility
is also no reason to prefer the distribution account over the personalized one.


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

for this I have an answer: samba bugzilla and the bugzilla maintainers changed
last year ;-).

Havin non-personalized accounts being actively used is just not nice. The fact
that you don't see who talks to you is just one of the not so nice points.

> 
> 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.

the second main bugzilla maintainer is Lars. I couldn't be in Göttingen
unfortunately but he is. Can you talk with him directly about this once more?
I would still like to "disable" the distribution account as I really see no
good reason for this being used actively.

Cheers
Björn