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Make the distinction between assignee types clearer (mailing list vs. mail

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alias vs. individual).  Provide a crossref to the signup page on the wiki
where individuals can ask for certain issues to be assigned to them by
default.
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Mark Linimon 2010-03-20 02:04:36 +00:00
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<entry>Type</entry>
<entry>Categories</entry>
<entry>Default Assignee</entry>
<entry>Assignee Type</entry>
</row>
</thead>
@ -333,35 +332,30 @@
<entry>advocacy efforts</entry>
<entry>advocacy</entry>
<entry>freebsd-advocacy</entry>
<entry>mailing list</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>&java.virtual.machine; problems</entry>
<entry>java</entry>
<entry>freebsd-java</entry>
<entry>mailing list</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>standards compliance</entry>
<entry>standards</entry>
<entry>freebsd-standards</entry>
<entry>mailing list</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>threading libraries</entry>
<entry>threads</entry>
<entry>freebsd-threads</entry>
<entry>mailing list</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>&man.usb.4; subsystem</entry>
<entry>usb</entry>
<entry>freebsd-usb</entry>
<entry>mailing list</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</table>
@ -376,15 +370,25 @@
The converse is also true, of course.)</para>
<para>Certain PRs may be reassigned away from these generic
assignees by anyone. For assignees which are mailing lists,
assignees by anyone. There are several types of assignees:
specialized mailing lists; mail aliases (used for certain
limited-interest items); and individuals.</para>
<para>For assignees which are mailing lists,
please use the long form when making the assignment (e.g.,
<literal>freebsd-foo</literal> instead of <literal>foo</literal>);
this will avoid duplicate emails sent to the mailing list.</para>
<note>
<para>Since the list of individuals who have volunteered to
be the default assignee for certain types of PRs changes
so often, it is much more suitable for <ulink
url="http://wiki.freebsd.org/AssigningPRs">the FreeBSD wiki</ulink>.
</para>
</note>
<para>Here is a sample list of such entities; it is probably
not complete.</para>
</note>
<table id=common-assignees-base>
<title>Common Assignees &mdash; base system</title>