Hi all,

There has been a change in policy in bugzilla since the upgrade which makes handling bugs much easier, but isn't yet widely known.

For anyone who wants to follow bugzilla, but who isn't on the bugs@gimp.org alias, there is a new method to get at that information. An added benefit is that you don't get any spam sent to bugs@gimp.org too, and an administrator doesn't have to add you to a text file somewhere.

Simply go to your user preferences in bugzilla, and add bugs@gimp.org to the list of users you are watching. Check all the boxes so that you get a notification mail when the user is added as a CC, assigned a bug, reports a bug, comments on a bug or receives a mail from a bug someone else commented on. You can also reduce the volume of mail by removing some of those.

The new procedure for product aliases in Bugzilla is similar - create a new bugzilla user (Bugzilla maintainers can do this without there actually being a mail account at the other end) with an address ending in @bugzilla.gnome.org (example: gimp@bugzilla.gnome.org or gimp-docs@bugzilla.gnome.org), set that user to be automatically assigned bugs for the relevant modules, and get everyone interested in the module to watch the user.

I think this is great, since it removes one layer of administration from the loop for people who want to follow a product.

In fact, I'm like to reccommend removing everyone from bugs@gimp.org, and using watching instead for GIMP bugs. What do people think?

Cheers,
Dave.