Fair enough for duplicates. Still, component and keywords can't do any harm, can they? I often see a bug with attached patch, or a regression, not properly marked as such, and want to fix it but I'm unable to; and it's usually not worth the extra spam and bothering someone else.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/6/1 Ken Sharp <kennyb...@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." > > > -- J. Leclanche / Adys
