[arch-general] inefficient handling of bug reports?

Angus charmender at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 09:19:16 EDT 2011


On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 03/27/2011 05:16 AM, Angus wrote:
>>
>> When I file a bug report with the Flyspray web interface, why can't I
>> specify the package it concerns? Having that option should make it
>> possible for the package maintainers to be immediately and
>> automatically notified of the report.
>>
>
> you seem to be a regular bugzilla user. You can't specify a package because
> we have a lot of them and somebody has to add them as a project and sucks(it
> might be a limitation for flyspray)

But a script should be able to take care of this, no?

> instead we chose to have some style but not everyone use it.
>
> [packagename] short description

I use that when reporting bugs, but it doesn't seem to get my reports
assigned to the relevant maintainer(s) any faster at all...


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