Re: Introducing bugbot

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri May 05 2023 - 15:43:49 EST


On Fri, 5 May 2023 15:39:38 -0400 Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> 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).

Makes sense!

> > 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

Ah, must have come in this merge window, cause we don't have that text
in networking trees yet. GTK.

> > 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.

Can confirm, thanks!