Heads up on Extra Mile initiative

[David Edmundson]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Aurélien Gâteau <agateau at kde.org> wrote:
> Le vendredi 20 juillet 2012 16:30:50 vous avez écrit :
>
>> > Right now the assignee for the tracker bug is myself. Do you think it
>> > should be kde-testing@ or any another address?
>>
>> Bugs on a mailing list (IMHO) destroy a ML. I don't want it to drown
>> out the other discussions like this one. So I vote no.
>
> OK, I don't like them either.
>
>> Alternatives are:
>>  - Create a "fake" bugzilla user, and set that as the default asignee.
>> Then anyone who wants to follow these bugs goes to
>> https://bugs.kde.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email and adds this account to
>> their "user watching".
>
> I'd like to do this, but is it possible to create a fake user without creating
> a fake email account? If it's too much pain it can stay that way for now.
>
That fake user could use your normal personal email address.
Alternatively there's a "bugs-null" ML that some of the outdated
components use.

>> > I will be on vacation from August 10 to 25, with little to none Internet
>> > access, so I want to wait until I am back to blog about it (and possibly
>> > unleash the flood). Until then, if you have bug reports which you consider
>> > candidates for extra mile bugs it would be great if you could mark them as
>> > such. This would help bootstraping the initiative before going fully
>> > public.
>> I would consider a dot article as well. Maybe after it gets going a
>> bit. Not so much when we're reporting extra mile bugs, but when we're
>> on the phase of encouraging (and working ourselves) on getting
>> everyone to fix them.
>
> Agreed, makes sense. Just added it to the wiki page.
>
> Aurélien