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Re: Opening up bug triaging rights

 

On May 14, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Currently the bug triaging rights for a given PROJECT (ability to set
> status and importance of bugs, but also ability to nominate a bug for a
> past series) is restricted to the corresponding PROJECT-bugs team, which
> is generally a moderated team that nobody really monitors new members
> applications for. This restricts the number of people who can help with
> bugs, whereas we should probably encourage more people to do that.
> 
> During the bug triaging session at the OpenStack Design Summit we
> proposed to open membership to the core PROJECT-bugs teams. This means
> that anybody could join the team(s) and start helping with bug triaging.
> If we get the documentation right first, the benefit (more triagers,
> empowered community) should outweigh the drawbacks (potentially insane
> triaging that needs to be reverted).
> 
> If all projects are in agreement with this plan, we would create a
> single, open, openstack-bugs team. People joining that team would be
> able to  helping with bug triaging in all OpenStack core projects. This
> would certainly be clearer than having multiple teams with different
> membership rules.

Doesn't this come with the downside that now everyone will see every bug? That could lead to a lot of noise that a contributor will need to filter before seeing the bugs that are important to that person.


--John


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