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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Bugzilla permissions

From: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:14:36 -0700
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:25:00AM -0500, Bill Meier wrote:

> ISTR a reason the "assigned to" is left unchanged is something about 
> email notices about the bug need to go to the administrator or 
> something.

I recall another reason (although I may be recalling incorrectly), that 
leaving it assigned to wireshark-bugs keeps updates going to the 
wireshark-bugs mailing list whereas if its assigned to a particular 
person those e-mail updates wouldn't go out.