Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing

[Michael Jones]

From a non-gentoo developer who seriously looked at joining the community
over the last few years as a new developer, this entire conversation thread
is absurd, and is a wonderful example of why I decided to not bother.

If you don't want people to edit the field such that it's usable with the
official package manager of the distribution, then change the formatting
rules for the field!

If you don't want people editing a field, then change the software such
that groups who aren't allowed to edit the field aren't even capable of
editing it!

Either officially document the expected formatting and permissions, or put
automated enforcement rules into place. Throwing accusations of wrongdoing
around simply because the action in question generates an email is, again,
absurd.




On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
wrote:

> On 05/10/2017 05:33 PM, David Seifert wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 18:22 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
>
>
> >>
> >
> > He doesn't stop: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617694
> > Please drop editbugs privileges for some time. Everyone agrees that
> > this maintainer-specific metadata is not to be touched.
> >
>
> I've actually spent some time looking into this and haven't actually
> found any authoritative documentation that makes it maintainer-specific,
> so I welcome some references to documentation that it is.
>
> There is the bug wrangler project page, but that is project-specific and
> not global.
>
> Although it is certainly a good practice that maintainer acks
> stabilizations; other projects routinely files stabilization requests,
> in particular the security project.
>
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