Re: Introducing bugbot

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 12:32:26PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Interesting. Obviously that assumes the bug needs a fix, and we're
> talking bugzilla so lots of clueless people lobbing non-issues at us.

This is why anyone can create a bug on bugzilla, but only a subset of people
can enable bugbot on it (by setting the bugbot+ flag).

> But also - Closes: is a legit trailer now? I thought we only allow Link:

It's a semi-legit trailer and is going through -next:
https://docs.kernel.org/next/process/submitting-patches.html#using-reported-by-tested-by-reviewed-by-suggested-by-and-fixes

> In any case - I'm guessing I just don't have permissions to close the
> issues via web. Is your preference to iterate on the bot or maintainers
> to request permissions in BZ (how?)?

Yes, it's not a power granted by default, but people just need to ask.
You should have this awesome power now.

-K