whoowns (WAS:Re: bmp still requires ExcludeArch?)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:37:28 +1100, Colin Charles wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 16:54 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > The last time I tested that it compiled, started up, and threw a lot
> > of
> > > noise at me when trying to play .ogg (or .mp3, for that matter).
> > Will
> > > test again.
> > 
> > Colin,  Ralf Ertzinger "owns" the bmp package. I can't comment on
> > whether it works flawlessly on PPC.
> 
> We definitely need some sort of `whoowns` script. I went by last updater
> in spec file (not always the best I guess)

We used to have the bugzilla components list, but for some time it no
longer shows the owners' e-mail addresses, but just their real names:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/describecomponents.cgi?product=Fedora%20Extras

> And searching through bugzilla, is tedious when you're offline and
> trying to get stuff fixed. However, maybe some form a XMLRPC magic to
> connect to Bugzilla and provide such information would be good (at least
> I avoid a web browser)
> 
> That might be a worhty tool for fedora-rpmdevtools as well :)

First we need a new list.