Bug 8396
| Summary: | undesired default ownership | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Other | Reporter: | Stefan Richter (stefanr) |
| Component: | Bug Tracker | Assignee: | Bug Me Administrator (bugme-admin) |
| Status: | RESOLVED OBSOLETE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | alan |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | tracker | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | No | Bisected commit-id: | |
> Some people automatically get ownership of new bugs although they don't want > to. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/28/362 |
Some people automatically get ownership of new bugs although they don't want to. Sure, bugzilla.kernel.org's FAQ says that the owner field of a newly entered bug doesn't mean anything [1]. But still, it's highly irritating to the false owners and to all visitors of this site. Make sure that only meta-addresses are used for automatically filled-in owners, unless a person opted in to get his address automatically inserted. Or more correctly, delete the "owner" field and replace it by - a mail exploder for each component which can be watched by interested people, - an "assignee" field which is filled in when a bug is assigned to a person. [1] "Q. If a bug has an owner does that mean they are working on it? A. No. If it is not in the ASSIGNED state then no one is working on it. The owner defaults to the subsytem maintainer. However, anyone who wants to submit a patch or add more info to a bug can do so. If the bug is reassigned to someone then the owner field will reflect that change."