With Jira, the project could have administrators over its domain, and it is easy to set that up (I was just doing it for the Incubator), but I don't know how to way to partition admin permissions that way for bugzilla, and it simply won't happen that every Committer will have global administrator permissions. Is there a way to partition permissions with bugzilla?
I am looking at the docs for the current version of bugzilla, and there do appear to be new features not present in ours. For example, I don't see "Edit Group Controls" available in our version. But I still don't see what I see in Jira, although I might be missing it (not enough time to read it in detail).
I installed the latest Bugzilla to check and I contacted Dave Miller, the project lead for Bugzilla, to ask him. Per project permissions are not supported, it's planned but not a top priority. The projects categories seen on bugzilla.mozilla.org is a Mozilla specific hack, the categories are hardcoded in the page.
> On a related topic, a number of the 26K users in our database > have multiple identities because the e-mail address is the login > identity. I understand that more recent versions of bugzilla > have a user option to change that, but I don't know if there is > a feature for merging accounts.
According to Dave :
"There is a script in existence to merge user accounts (we've used it on mozilla.org and on the internal Bugzilla at what used to be Netscape), but it requires 2.17.1 or newer. I will do my best to get this committed to cvs soon so it's available in the next release."
Emmanuel Bourg
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