Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

[Andrew Morton]

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.

Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

[Theodore Tso]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 01:48:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 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.

Ah, so the fs_ext4@kernel-bugs.osdl.org is really a bugzilla
pseudo-user?  But for the ext3 component was set to assign bugs to you
by default, as opposed to creating a fs_ext3 pseudo-user?

I'm just trying to figure out how the bugzilla system is supposed to
be working...

						- Ted

Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 18:08:06 -0500 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 01:48:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, so the fs_ext4@kernel-bugs.osdl.org is really a bugzilla
> pseudo-user?

I guess so.

>   But for the ext3 component was set to assign bugs to you
> by default, as opposed to creating a fs_ext3 pseudo-user?

Ah.  We'll need to change that.  You don't want all my bugzilla traffic
landing on linux-ext4 :)

> I'm just trying to figure out how the bugzilla system is supposed to
> be working...

I'm far from a definitive source on that matter.

I'm not sure who's reading bugme-admin at present.

Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

[Martin Bligh]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 18:08:06 -0500 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 01:48:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> Ah, so the fs_ext4@kernel-bugs.osdl.org is really a bugzilla
>> pseudo-user?
>
> I guess so.

It is. That way we can have multiple people administer a category, etc.

>>   But for the ext3 component was set to assign bugs to you
>> by default, as opposed to creating a fs_ext3 pseudo-user?
>
> Ah.  We'll need to change that.  You don't want all my bugzilla traffic
> landing on linux-ext4 :)

You want me to create another pseudo user? is easy to do.

>> I'm just trying to figure out how the bugzilla system is supposed to
>> be working...
>
> I'm far from a definitive source on that matter.
>
> I'm not sure who's reading bugme-admin at present.

The planned way of doing things is basically to have a pseudo-user for
each category. Then anyone who is interested can just set up an email
watch on that psuedo user (go under "Prefs" then select email preferences
tab).

Some "legacy" ones are set up to still go directly to one user.

A (very) few people have requested mailing lists get cc'ed on some
categories, for which we've set up mailing list users, and had them
watch the categories too.

Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

[Theodore Tso]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 11:01:47PM -0800, Martin Bligh wrote:
> >>   But for the ext3 component was set to assign bugs to you
> >> by default, as opposed to creating a fs_ext3 pseudo-user?
> >
> > Ah.  We'll need to change that.  You don't want all my bugzilla traffic
> > landing on linux-ext4 :)
> 
> You want me to create another pseudo user? is easy to do.

OK, could you please add a pseudo user for the ext3 category.  That
way we can have both akpm and linux-ext4 watch that category.
Thanks!!

						- Ted

Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

[Martin Bligh]

Done for ext3 and ext2 as well

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 11:01:47PM -0800, Martin Bligh wrote:
>> >>   But for the ext3 component was set to assign bugs to you
>> >> by default, as opposed to creating a fs_ext3 pseudo-user?
>> >
>> > Ah.  We'll need to change that.  You don't want all my bugzilla traffic
>> > landing on linux-ext4 :)
>>
>> You want me to create another pseudo user? is easy to do.
>
> OK, could you please add a pseudo user for the ext3 category.  That
> way we can have both akpm and linux-ext4 watch that category.
> Thanks!!
>
>                                                - Ted
>

Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

[Eric Sandeen]

Martin Bligh wrote:
> A (very) few people have requested mailing lists get cc'ed on some
> categories, for which we've set up mailing list users, and had them
> watch the categories too.

I think this makes sense for ext4 (I think xfs was one of those few;
bugs go to xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com for that category IIRC) so at least
people see them.

Would anyone on linux-ext4 disagree with setting up the list to watch
the ext3 & ext4 categories?

-Eric

Re: The default assignee for the ext4 component goes nowhere

[Theodore Tso]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:58:44AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Martin Bligh wrote:
> > A (very) few people have requested mailing lists get cc'ed on some
> > categories, for which we've set up mailing list users, and had them
> > watch the categories too.
> 
> I think this makes sense for ext4 (I think xfs was one of those few;
> bugs go to xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com for that category IIRC) so at least
> people see them.
> 
> Would anyone on linux-ext4 disagree with setting up the list to watch
> the ext3 & ext4 categories?

On the theory that it is easier to ask forgiveness than to get
permission :-), I've subscribed linux-ext4@vger.ekernel org to the
ext2, ext3, and ext4 categories.  If this result in too much e-mail,
folks can complain and we can cut things back.

						- Ted