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Ulrich Mueller wrote:
|>>>>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote:
|
|> | One other thing is that it is sometimes difficult to figure out to
|> | whom a bug should be assigned, because metadata.xml for many packages
|> | simply isn't clear. If you list a few developers as well as a herd,
|> | does that mean you want bugs assigned to the herd or to a single
|> | developer who happens to be in that list? Some packages list several
|> | herds in metadata.xml. Bugs can be assigned to just one address
|
|> I'd say that in the case of a herd listed , the bug should be sent
|> there.
|
| A common case is a herd plus a specific maintainer, and I think then
| it should be assigned to the maintainer, with a CC to the herd's team.
|
|> If it doesn't specify a herd but several developers, sending the bug
|> to any or all of them should be the rule.
|
| In this case, it should be assigned to the first developer listed, and
| all others in CC.
|

If this is the case, I think this should be stated somewhere in the docs
, since the order of listed maintainers don't have any priority, and I
personally would prefer to keep it so.


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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux

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