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

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>]

"Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo@libero.it> writes:

> 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.

I don't think this would be a good change.

I think there should be a way to identify, in the bugzilla database,
the person who caused a regression, when that is known.  However, I
don't think using the Assigned field is the right mechanism.  As
others have said, it means that we can no longer tell whether somebody
is actually working on the bug.  In a volunteer project, in which some
patches come from people who just e-mail them in, to get approved and
applied by more active maintainers, we can not reasonably expect every
contributor to use bugzilla.

(Daniel, I can supply kittens if you need them.)

Ian