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Date:      Mon, 8 Jun 2020 13:35:53 +1000
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <freebsd@gushi.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to take action on a port?
Message-ID:  <c3521141-1988-6364-c778-6811349d522e@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.99999.352.2006071442350.93761@prime.gushi.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.21.99999.352.2006071442350.93761@prime.gushi.org>

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On 8/06/2020 8:41 am, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm a port maintainer for a single port, and the Bugzilla is complaining 
> to me about an open report.
> 
> (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246829)
> 
> I'm not a committer, and also don't have any ability to change the state 
> of the bug other than commenting on it, but this *feels* like pilot 
> error to me.
> 
> As this is a fairly quiet port (only two open issues right now), what is 
> the correct way to resolve this?  (I.e. should I have access to do more 
> in the bugzilla?)
> 
> I'd also like to take over maintainership for a few other ports with a 
> low thrash rate (just to keep them from going abandoned), so getting 
> better at this workflow is useful to me.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> 

Hi Dan,

Bugzilla provides regular notifications to accounts that have issues 
(bugs) open with any flag who's value is set to "? <their-email address>"

The purpose of these flags is to request feedback, or ask for something 
from a specific account/email/person, and the notifications/reminders 
are a way of showing people a list of things that need their feedback

In this case for bug 246829, the flag is the maintainer-feedback flag, 
currently set to ? <your-maintainer email)

What people in the values of these flags need to do is to acknowledge 
the flag/feedback, by adding a comment, providing a patch or whatever 
else, and set the flags value to + or - (depending on the context of the 
request)

Setting a flags value (acknowledging it), means that that you wont 
receive notifications about that issue, unless and until that flag, or 
another flag is set to ? with your email address in its value.

So for this bug, since you've already provided feedback in comment 1, go 
ahead and set maintainer-feedback to +

If you believe the issue can be resolved at this point, be sure to 
include a comment specifically saying that, and what the resolution 
should be

In this case I'd suggest something like:

"This issue can be closed: Not A Bug" as the value provided in 
DEFAULT_VERSIONS is not a valid one

koobs









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