Regular users right on bugzilla

Ben Klein shacklein at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 06:30:31 CDT 2009


2009/6/1 Ken Sharp <kennybobs at o2.co.uk>:
>
>
> André Hentschel wrote:
>>
>> Jerome Leclanche schrieb:
>>>
>>> Since there's been some discussion about bugzilla recently...
>>>
>>> Is there any reason regular users aren't allowed to change keywords,
>>> component and dependencies on bugs they don't own on Bugzilla?
>>> Maybe marking as duplicate as well. I don't think it'd do any harm to
>>> allow those rights to every registered user.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Jerome
>>>
>> Maybe not to all users, there are always spammers, etc.
>> But the idea is great, maybe we can give these rights just to the
>> developers(everyone, who sent more than X patches).
>> That makes more sense for me.
>> Technical that means, every developer sends a mail somewhere with a
>> keyword "bugzilla-mod" or something and the e-mail-adresses are compared
>> with the registrations of wine-dev and wine-patches or with the commits in
>> git.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Most developers already have that access, and if they don't, they can just
> ask for it.
>
> I think the reason all users can't do it, is because most users don't know
> what they're doing.  It's bad enough correcting all the mistakes they make
> now, the last thing we need is every user doing whatever they like whenever
> they like.  Ask the poor triage guys who have to change nearly every bug.

You beat me to it. Devs can ask for bugzilla "admin" rights by asking
an appropriate admin or asking on -devel (I saw one just recently). I
also agree with not giving extra control to all registered users (btw,
I'm just a regular user on bugzilla; I've had to request bugs be
marked DUP rather than set it myself :) ). It's bad enough they can
change the status of their own bugs from INVALID to UNCONFIRMED (which
I have seen all too often).

"This is not a bug in Wine. Talk to <insert project here>. Closing invalid."
"No, this IS a bug in Wine because Windows behaves differently! Reopening."



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