Who moved my bug?

[shmuel siegel]

Jon Stanley wrote:
> How is fedora-devel a "limited" audience? Many of the major
> maintainers weighed in on that thread.
>   
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> Are there concrete changes that you could suggest to how to actively
> involve more people? I'm all ears.
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>
>   
The following is said in hind-sight. I have no reason to believe that I 
would have done anything any different.

This list is limited in the sense that it is only developers/packagers 
and a few lurkers like me. This change also affects bug reporters so 
test-list should have been notified (I am not saying that it wasn't, I 
don't know). There is also the much larger group of Fedora users, some 
of whom report bugs. I am not sure how many of them would even read a 
Fedora list but probably a fair portion of them are subscribed to 
fedora-announce.

But the real reason that I referred to the audience as a limited 
audience was because the title of the post referred to a change in the 
triage procedures. Since I am not a triager, I probably would not have 
(carefully) read such a post. Using bugzilla in the title, instead of 
triage, might have brought in a larger, more diverse, audience. It is 
debatable whether or not you would have had a productive discussion in a 
larger discussion; so maybe your initial procedure was best.

A short announcement should have been made at the end saying that such 
and such are the tangible changes to bugzilla that FESCo approved. Then 
wait to see the fireworks
>> .....It should not be surprising that
>> other audiences will object when they realize the consequences of the
>> changes.
>>     
Also,
>> 2) As the subject was reopened ... and needed another committee
>> discussion to close the issue, the conclusion should have been communicated
>> to [the posting] list, preferably as a note to the thread that reopened the
>> discussion.
>>     
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>   
> No one is perfect. If you have ways that I could improve,
> please feel free to let me know :)
>
>   
Really, I was very pleased with the handling. I just felt that it would 
have been better had there been closure on the threads that discussed 
the issue.