On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Assignment is useful to me for multiple reasons, but
the most important
are:
1. 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.
2. (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