[Gnu-arch-users] IRC refinements to the game

[Tom Lord]

Good ideas from #arch:


Assign numbers to bugs when they arrive in "incoming" instead of
"queue".

A bug file can be called <number>.<short-name> where <number> is the
permanent id of the bug and <short-name> can be changed over time.

The sum of the two previous ideas is that bugmasters aren't required
to come up with unique <short-name>s for every new bug.

Derive the inventory id tag of a bug file from the <number> for that
bug.  Modulo a bugmaster just outright deleting a bug file, this is
sufficient to ensure that bug numbers won't be re-used (since arch
would complain about duplicate tags).  It also guards against bug
files being accidentally renamed in a way that would change their
number.

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gatekeepers need a way to surrender bugs they have previously picked.
(I.e., there needs to be a root from "I own that bug" back to "Not
_my_ problem")


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In the long run, "closed/rejected/rotted" bugs need a way to migrate
out of the bugs tree.

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-t