[fedora-java] java group

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:03 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> * Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> [2008-05-09 13:53]:
> > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > What would you guys think about having a subset of Java packages be
> > > owned by a Java group?
> 
> Tom Fitzsimmons was going to start a Java SIG.  Perhaps this can tie in
> with that?

Yeah, that makes sense.

> > > [...]
> > 
> > I think that would help with coverage of issues. The main problem is
> > making sure that someone is taking ownership of a problem in the group
> > so that something does not just get 'oh I thought Colin was working on
> > it?'
> 
> Yeah, that's my only issue as well.  And it annoys me when I file a bug
> and see it go to xdg-maint at redhat.com or something since there's no
> guarantee anyone's watching that alias.

That is a valid concern - however, since Fedora is in general a
community project, there's no guarantee that a bug will get a response
even if it's assigned to an actual person.

As for knowing that someone's working on a bug - Bugzilla provides a
mechanism for someone to take ownership of a bug (change state to
ASSIGNED, reassign to your email address).

I think in practice, having more people see issues and work on them
collectively will work out better than individual fiefdoms.