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Re: Mainline in regression-fix mode after Thanksgiving
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 07:27:08PM +0100, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> The change I am proposing is to give LESS meaning to the assignment: since
> there is no way we can force anybody to do anything, I am proposing that an
> assignemnt becomes just a way to mark the person who is supposed to be
> looking the bug more closely at any given moment.
I'd prefer for assignment to mean that the assigned person has agreed to
look at the bug. With your change, we lose the ability to make the
distinction: when I see a name in the assignment field, under your system
that would give me no information about whether anyone is looking at it.
If you attach to the log a note saying that the regression is caused by
a given patch (with the name of the patch submitter) all the information
is already in the PR. Your proposed change to the assignee field, therefore,
adds no information, and in fact removes information (we can already
find out which patch caused the bug, but we can no longer tell whether
there's a person who has agreed to work on a fix).