Re: [gentoo-dev] More bugzilla restrictions should be applied to normal users

[Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)]

El 13/05/11 01:57, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto escribió:
> Hi Markos.
>
> On 12-05-2011 20:19, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Quite a lot of users tend to change bugzilla fields without even
> > understand why they are doing it. Would it be possible to restrict users
> > from touching the following fields?
>
> > - Importance
> > - Severity
Never knew if these fields are really used. Anyway I have seen them been
resetted a few times and users usually don't touch them then.
> > - CCing arches on their own (!)
They can still manually add them I think ;)
> > - Blocks
I at least use that to let users easily report bugs on Hardened docs,
and maybe others do too
> > - Keywords
Yeah this one maybe needs being blocked.
> > How do you feel about that? Does bugzilla allow such restrictions?
>
> I think we should trust our users. Some might feel tempted to "test all
> the buttons", but I'm sure the majority will just try to fill a bug
> report the best way they know how.
> This topic has been raised a few times in the past and as far as I can
> recall there never was a consensus about it. In any case, as pointed out
> before, some developers want users to be able to CC them on bugs, at
> least on some bugs, informed users can have a good idea about the
> importance and or severity of a bug and in general being more open can
> provide a more inviting environment for users to look at and or
> contribute to Gentoo.
> Finally, whenever a user abuses bugzilla, you can poke bugzilla admins,
> userrel and a few others to look at and take care of it. Some of us can
> go as far as locking users accounts - feel free to poke me if that need
> ever arises.
I'd just like to add that usually a simple warning when users don't do
things properly suffices, I recall receiving one from Tommy[D] regarding
the use of CCing and after that I didn't do evil deeds with it again.

klondike