[RFC] Auto-assign regressions (maintainers, read!)

["Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo at libero dot it>]

Hello,

I'm sending this message because we were discussing the issue deep into
another thread on the mailing list.

I (and others) believe that it would be useful to automatically assign a PR
about a regression to the author of the patch which caused/exposed the
regression. Of course, this does not want to be a way to coerce people to
work on something: the maintainer can just unassign the PR if he does not
want/have time to work on that, or if he can't fix the exposed bug for some
reason.

We think this would be valuable for the bugmasters, the RM and the
maintainters themselves. Does anybody who actually produce patches have an
objection against this new policy? Otherwise, I'll prepare a patch to our
bugmastering policies to make it go live in a few days.

Thanks
-- 
Giovanni Bajo