Re: [TOPIC 07/11] New Contributors and Discord

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2024, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmsjwsw1q.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20240924-sawfish-of-exotic-fantasy-b6abdb@meerkat>

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

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> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 02:31:07PM GMT, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> > I can chime up and offer bugspray bot integration for the list. This is a new
>> > tool I've been developing for integrating the mailing list with bugzilla. I've
>> > been using it on the tools mailing list over the past year with reasonable
>> > success.
>> 
>> Intriguing.  Everybody loves to hate bugzilla, but would bugzilla
>> become less smelly with bugspray enough to make it palatable to all
>> of us?
>
> I'm happy to enable it for this list if you'd like to try this out. It doesn't
> really create any obligation to use it, but it may end up being something
> useful.
>
> To enable it, I only need a list of people who are allowed to trigger bugspray
> via the "bugspray track" trigger phrase. I assume it's going to be more than
> just you?

Now we'll have to come up with and maintain an official list of trusted contributors. Which at first may sound like such a list may alianate those who did not make the list, but when deciding which topics are ready to hit 'next', such a "selection" is implicitly made to choose whose opinion weigh more anyway.

It might make the process more transparent to formalize the "more trusted contributors" list.

I suspect that the list of folks who can operator bugspray do not necessarily have to be with deep technical knowledge of the innards of Git. They have to be able to dedicate the time to read and understand what was said in the discussion threads, recognise when a problem is identified ("bugspray track"), have been long enough to know or able to use "git blame / git log" to see who likely has useful insight into the issue than others ("bugspray tag"?), and have good enough taste to recognise irrelevant "bugs" that are opened by those with worse taste. In a sense, it is very different from the earlier "list of those whose opinion weigh more in assessing topic's doneness". Competent "project secretaries" are the kinds of people we want.

If I misunderstood the nature of "allow-list" for trigger phrase, please correct me. Also it would be very welcome to hear from those listening in from the sidelines who want to see different kinds of people to be on the trigger phrase list.

Thanks.