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

[Richard Guenther]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:33:02 +0100, Giovanni Bajo
<giovannibajo@libero.it> wrote:
> 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.

Can't we have a caused-by-patch field in bugzilla where we could link the patch
causing the failure and a caused-by field with the author (and
automatically CC'ing
him)?  I don't think it is a great idea overloading the assigned-to field.

Richard.