Re: [TOPIC 07/11] New Contributors and Discord

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 12:15:13PM GMT, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > To enable it, I only need a list of people who are allowed to trigger bugspray
> > via the "bugspray track" trigger phrase. I assume it's going to be more than
> > just you?
> 
> Now we'll have to come up with and maintain an official list of
> trusted contributors.  Which at first may sound like such a list may
> alianate those who did not make the list, but when deciding which
> topics are ready to hit 'next', such a "selection" is implicitly
> made to choose whose opinion weigh more anyway.

Yeah, you're overthinking this. :) I literally just want to restrict the
ability to invoke bugspray to a limited number of people, at least for the
time being -- to avoid a situation like a troll sending "bugspray track" to
every possible thread. 

The people on this list don't have to have any kind of official standing with
the git project itself.

> I suspect that the list of folks who can operator bugspray do not
> necessarily have to be with deep technical knowledge of the innards
> of Git.  They have to be able to dedicate the time to read and
> understand what was said in the discussion threads, recognise when a
> problem is identified ("bugspray track"), have been long enough to
> know or able to use "git blame / git log" to see who likely has
> useful insight into the issue than others ("bugspray tag"?),

FYI, "bugspray tag" assigns the bug in bugzilla to a specific person. If you
don't intend to use bugzilla to this degree, you can ignore this aspect of it
entirely and never use the tag command.

> and have good enough taste to recognise irrelevant "bugs" that are
> opened by those with worse taste.  In a sense, it is very different
> from the earlier "list of those whose opinion weigh more in
> assessing topic's doneness".  Competent "project secretaries" are
> the kinds of people we want.
> 
> If I misunderstood the nature of "allow-list" for trigger phrase,
> please correct me.  Also it would be very welcome to hear from those
> listening in from the sidelines who want to see different kinds of
> people to be on the trigger phrase list.

Hopefully, I clarified it a bit. Also, bugspray is still an early model, so I
am happy to add functionality based on the feedback I receive.

-K