Re: FreeBSD bugzilla, bureaucracy and obstacles

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:09:15 UTC 
On 19/07/2023 00:28, Chris wrote:
> On 2023-07-18 00:05, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 9:02 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 18/07/2023 07:29, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>> > … Would you say that requesting maintainers-feedback when 
>>> reporting an
>>> > issue with a port is common sense? …
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> Common sense, and automated sense, because in the vast majority of 
>>> cases
>>> (i.e. commonplace), the request is automated.
> Tho I'm not the one whom you asked. I can say as a long-time 
> Maintainer; that
> the solicitation for feedback is automated in the sense that Bugzilla 
> determines
> whom the Maintainer is and CC's them.

Thanks; true enough.

Whilst the maintainer's address does not appear in the CC field, there 
is addressing with relation to the maintainer-feedback flag.

See, for example, the Bugzilla-automated beginning to the history at 
today's <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_activity.cgi?id=272586>.