Bug 854

Summary: Can't watch a component
Product: [Infrastructure] Bugzilla Reporter: Darren Hart <dvhart>
Component: bugzillaAssignee: Yongkang You <yongkang.you>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: infras.bug.watcher, Infras.watcher, sgw
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
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OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Darren Hart 2011-03-11 12:04:29 UTC 
As a designated kernel person, I need a way to be notified of all new bugs (and possibly comments, etc) filed against the kernel. I've used other BZ implementations which allowed for this, I believe as an extension to the watching mechanism. Currently we can only only watch users, we should be able to watch Components as well - ideally we could also watch Hardware, Architecture, or even setup an RSS feed for an arbitrary saved search.

It appears that currently only the component owner can get such email.

For now, adding a watch for components would be sufficient.
Comment 1 Yongkang You 2011-03-15 11:48:47 UTC 
Hart,

Please watch this user: yp.kernel.watcher@fake.user It is for all kernel bugs. We don't want to set component watcher one by one for users, as it brings too much overhead (add/remove) to Bugzilla Admin. User should choose the right fake user to watch.
Comment 2 Darren Hart 2011-03-15 12:13:18 UTC 
Interesting, is there a list of fake.user ids anywhere?

As to admin overhead - watching components was just part of the tool that users could check and uncheck as part of their email preferences in this other instance of bz that I used. I didn't think it required any admin interaction at all. It exposed a much more intuitive interface. For now, I'll watch this fake.user, but the solution isn't self-discoverable, and that will lead to more and more admin overhead answering similar questions as our user base grows. I think we should consider looking at augmenting our bz implementation to expose this subscription to components feature to users, rather than relying on the fake.user hack.
Comment 3 Yongkang You 2011-03-15 14:45:15 UTC 
Darren,

We have a wiki to introduce all watch user list. https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Watch_Yocto_Bugs

User could select either fake user to watch.