Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Finally, my role is not to allocate WMF developer's time. I'm going to work with their supervisors to make sure that the work I'm assigning to developers stands a reasonable chance of getting done. In fact, I may do this most often by assigning bugs to the EPMs instead of the developers themselves.
I really don't like the idea of assigning bugs to people who you know will not be resolving these bugs. I'm mentioning this in a subsequent e-mail as I just received some bugspam where someone has been assigned to a bug who I know will not be resolving it. While some level of bugspam is to be expected, changing the assignee on a bug to someone who's only going to have to reassign it to the proper person is a silly step that creates noise without any signal.
A better solution would be to e-mail these people directly with bug links and ask them to assign the bugs properly or make lists on a wiki page/EtherPad/wherever.
MZMcBride