On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:57:26PM +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > - CCing arches on their own (!) > > - Blocks > > - Keywords > > - <...> > > > > 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. It is not a matter of trust. If you trust them, then blocking access to these fields shouldn't be a problem anyway. > 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. > 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? :)
Regards, -- Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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