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

[Thomas Kahle]

On 11:59 Fri 13 May     , Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
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> On 13-05-2011 10:10, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:57:26PM +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> ...
> >> 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.
> > First of all, I said "Ccing Arches". Of course they should be allowed to
> > CC anyone, but ccing arches creates too much noise for us and quite a
> > lot of them do not understand the purpose of arch alias.
>
> I failed to notice you were talking about arches, sorry about that.
>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>> Regards,
> >>
> > How is this solution more elegant than the one I proposed? :)
>
> All I'm saying is that we already have tools to deal with users that
> abuse bugzilla and we've used them before when needed.

+1

From time to time I see users that CC x86 because they run into a bug on
their x86-box.  I've never seen a user doing that again after informing
them, so no problem here.  On the other hand I see a benefit of
openness.  So +1 for keeping everything as it is.

Cheers,
Thomas


>
> > Regards,
>
> On 13-05-2011 00:39, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote:
> > El 13/05/11 01:57, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto escribió:
> >> 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
>
> Francisco, thank you for mentioning this.
> When talking about users abusing bugzilla I was talking about users that
> repeatedly have a bad behaviour and that ignore warnings and or requests
> from developers.
>
> - --
> Regards,
>
> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
> Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng
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Thomas Kahle
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