On Feb 22, 2008, at 07:18, js wrote:
On 2/22/08, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Feb 21, 2008, at 11:31, Eric Hall wrote:
I'd like to see an improvement in maintainer notification, some way for trac to grok the maintainers of a port a ticket is filed against and send them an email without having a human properly assign the ticket or fill in the CC: field. I have no idea if there are even hooks in trac to make that possible....
I suggested that before too, but then jmpp pointed out that we don't capture the information "what port is this ticket for?" anywhere in the ticket. We don't have a field for that. Many people put the affected port name somewhere in the ticket title, but many don't, and those that do don't always put it in a consistent place. I don't know if we can reliably just try to find any portname in the ticket title. Also, many reporters report problems against the port they're trying to install, rather than against the dependency which actually failed.
I suggest giving non-maintainers the permission to change "Assigned to" field.
It seems to me like that would be a good idea too. But I'm not sure what all the implications of that would be.
Once tickets are properly assigned, all you have to do is to look at "My tickets".
Assuming reporters assign tickets correctly, sure.
In addition to that, How abount sending reminder to macports-dev when there're tickets unchanged more than a few weeks? Trac's backend is RDBMS so checking ticket state should be easy.
I know I have old tickets. Some need planning, some are waiting for upstream fixes, some are not very important but are still open because they're still unresolved. I don't need lots of emails nagging me about these. I have enough of an email problem as it is. Also, macports-dev is not a place to send automated emails; it's a place for discussing the development of MacPorts. For automated mails we have other lists, like macports-changes and macports-tickets.