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 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.
- (Less commonly) Assigning other people, most commonly on things I think
they have the inclination and expertise to fix.
FWIW, the github system seems to use @username tagging to do this. That is, if this bug is relevant to @joeluser, the owner of the project typically comments, "this looks like this is up your alley, @joeluser" which sends an email notification. @joeluser then decides whether to add this to their personal 'my bugs' list (which is only mental at this point, since github doesn't support bug lists). --scott