On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:40 AM, C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Assignment is useful to me for multiple reasons, but the most important are:
- Marking things I'm definitely going to work on (while trying to avoid
cookie-licking). Importantly, I can unmark myself as assigned, signally that it's "back in the pool".
More agressive use of tagging (or something like it) would help here. I also list using the 'my bugs' feature of bugzilla. But that doesn't actually
*like using
necessarily need to be reflected as 'assignment'. If there were a way to let me add to a list of 'my bugs' without requiring assignment (or editbugs) that would be totally cool.
Fixing 'my bugs' to not require assignment would also reduce the cookie-licking problem, so I think it would have beneficial social effects (beside reducing the barrier to entry for non-editbugs-having contributors). --scott