Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:42:04 -0500 "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The default assignee for bugs filed against the ext4 component is
> fs_ext4@kernel-bugs.osdl.org, which is a black hole.  (It's an invalid
> e-mail address.)   Sami, Fran__ois, my apologies for no one paying
> attention to your bug reports --- we didn't see them.  :-/
> 
> Could we please set the default asignee for bugs filed against the ext4
> component to be set to linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, please?  Otherwise,
> people who file ext4 bugs may find that they end up going into a black
> hole, unless they remember to also file a pointer to the ext4 mailing
> list.
> 
> Currently bugs filed against ext3 are going to akpm@osdl.org --- Andrew,
> do you mind if ext3 bugs also get sent to linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, so
> more people can get a heads-up about ext3 bugs that are reported by
> people going through the bugzilla interface?
> 

Go wild.

I think the normal way of doing this is to create an account at bugzilla
called linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org then you can log in using that account
and add it to various assignees using the "users to watch" feature.