How to take action on a port?
Kubilay Kocak
koobs at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 8 03:36:00 UTC 2020
On 8/06/2020 8:41 am, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm a port maintainer for a single port, and the Bugzilla is complaining
> to me about an open report.
>
> (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246829)
>
> I'm not a committer, and also don't have any ability to change the state
> of the bug other than commenting on it, but this *feels* like pilot
> error to me.
>
> As this is a fairly quiet port (only two open issues right now), what is
> the correct way to resolve this? (I.e. should I have access to do more
> in the bugzilla?)
>
> I'd also like to take over maintainership for a few other ports with a
> low thrash rate (just to keep them from going abandoned), so getting
> better at this workflow is useful to me.
>
> Best,
>
>
>
Hi Dan,
Bugzilla provides regular notifications to accounts that have issues
(bugs) open with any flag who's value is set to "? <their-email address>"
The purpose of these flags is to request feedback, or ask for something
from a specific account/email/person, and the notifications/reminders
are a way of showing people a list of things that need their feedback
In this case for bug 246829, the flag is the maintainer-feedback flag,
currently set to ? <your-maintainer email)
What people in the values of these flags need to do is to acknowledge
the flag/feedback, by adding a comment, providing a patch or whatever
else, and set the flags value to + or - (depending on the context of the
request)
Setting a flags value (acknowledging it), means that that you wont
receive notifications about that issue, unless and until that flag, or
another flag is set to ? with your email address in its value.
So for this bug, since you've already provided feedback in comment 1, go
ahead and set maintainer-feedback to +
If you believe the issue can be resolved at this point, be sure to
include a comment specifically saying that, and what the resolution
should be
In this case I'd suggest something like:
"This issue can be closed: Not A Bug" as the value provided in
DEFAULT_VERSIONS is not a valid one
koobs
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