Should we make it harder to assign a bug to yourself?

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 10:33:45PM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> I don't know, looks more like a social problem to me - and I think we
> were faring rather well in the past with being permissive and keeping
> red tape low (and checking things afterwards).

yes, agreeing here -- esp. since the self-assign might add some commitment and
prevent a "silent withdrawal" at least in a few cases.
 
> So perhaps we might want to include the below query to the ESC stats
> stack, and try keeping the oldest entry newer than, say, 3-6 months:
> 
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?email1=libreoffice-bugs%40lists.freedesktop.org&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=notsubstring&list_id=561999&order=changeddate%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&query_based_on=&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&status_whiteboard=easyhack&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr

Yes, that should be a gardening task just like e.g. tdf#84480[1]. Also adding a
"last changed" column and sorting by it might be helpful:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?columnlist=changeddate%2Ccomponent%2Cshort_short_desc%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity%2Clongdescs.count%2Cbug_status&email1=libreoffice-bugs%40lists.freedesktop.org&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=notsubstring&list_id=562010&order=changeddate%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&query_based_on=&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&status_whiteboard=easyhack&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr

shows tdf#39632 is an assigned EasyHack that wasnt touched since 2013-10-05
(aka 2 years) ....

Best,

Bjoern

[1] That one seems by the look at the mabnothighest and highestnotmab queries
    in need of some serious grooming too. At least as long as:
    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Most_Annoying_Bugs
    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Special:WhatLinksHere/QA/Most_Annoying_Bugs
    are still around.