[Development] Default assignees in Jira (was: Jira tickets for Qt Print Support)

[Edward Welbourne]

Sze Howe Koh (01 June 2022 16:03) wrote:
> Changing the default of Qt Print Support to "Unassigned" sounds
> reasonable in this case. How does this occur?

I believe Jira admins do this on request.
I suggest Mike e-mail Alex Blasche about that.

> Also, Qt 3D tickets are auto-assigned to Sean Harmer who hasn't been
> active in ~1.5 years [1]. Mike Krus has been manually taking recent
> tickets [2] and has privately expressed willingness to take Sean's
> place -- I'd like to nominate Mike as default assignee for Qt 3D. As
> far as I'm aware, the formal procedure for this and the eligibility
> criteria are not specified in any QUIP -- does it make sense to add
> Jira default assignees to QUIP 2?

I think the default assignee situation is mostly a case if "is anyone
willing ?" with perhaps a side-order of whether the Maintainer of
relevant code considers them suitable.  So if Mike Krus is willing and
we have no objection from a the Maintainer of Qt 3D, it'd be better to
have the tickets assigned by default to someone willing and active.

I see Sean is in fact listed [0] as one of the Maintainers of Qt 3D
(alongside Laszlo Agocs, Svenn-Arne Dragly and Paul Lemire); if he is no
longer active, it's perhaps time for someone to politely contact him and
ask if he'd like to step down and, if so, in favour of whom.  The coming
virtual QtCS [1] has a session on the question of how we deal with Ghost
Maintainers, so this may be an example to take up there.

[0] https://wiki.qt.io/Maintainers
[1] https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2022_-_Program

	Eddy.