Volunteer for bug summaries?

[Richard Guenther]

On 5/22/07, François-Xavier Coudert <fxcoudert@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When the commit which introduced the regression is known, why not
> simply assign the bug to the committer? Surely, people do follow
> regularly the bugs that are assigned to them, don't they?
>
> In my opinion, all regressions should always be assigned to someone,
> at all times. Either to the identified guilty party, or to a volunteer
> or maintainer of that field, who is then responsible for identifying
> the guilty party, or finding someone who accepts to do it. This sounds
> like a reasonable way of making sure some regressions don't get
> forgotten, doesn't it?

CCing the person who caused the regression is more appropriate.  Assigning
bugs to them detracts others from fixing the bug.

Richard.