[Libreoffice-qa] Bug Triage best practice: Change or not change assignee?

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 04:15:40PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Bjoern Michaelsen píše v Pá 20. 04. 2012 v 00:16 +0200:
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:23:46PM +0200, Nino Novak wrote:
> > > the question emerged, if reassigning a NEEDINFO-bug to the presumed info 
> > > provider[1] is Good or Bad. Please advise.
> > > 
> > > Nino
> > > [1]
> > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=BugTriage&diff=prev&oldid=42240
> > 
> > IMHO yes, the bug should always be assigned to the person that is required to
> > take action to make the bug proceed.
> 
> I am afraid that it is not scalable. If a developer has 100 bugs
> assigned, it is clear that some of them will be there for years. It
> creates false feeling that someone takes care of the bug but is it not
> true.

Wait, wait. We are talking about bugs in NEEDINFO being assigned to the
reporter to make clear that the report is incomplete. While devs are sometimes
also reporters those are cornercases (and if indeed a dev-reported bug goes to
NEEDINFO the missing info will hopefully be reported back quickly.

Best,

Bjoern