On Wednesday 22 February 2012 11:57:25 Parker Coates wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:23, Stefan Majewsky wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:11 PM, David Faure wrote: > >> "give rights to everyone, and remove rights when > >> someone abuses them". This is also what we do for SVN/GIT, so why don't > >> we do this for bugzilla? Presuming people are innocent upfront, rather > >> than guilty> > > What we do for SVN/Git is to give rights not to everyone, but to > > everyone who cares to ask. A certain very low barrier may help to keep > > out people who intend to act in the heat of the moment. Plus new SCM > > accounts need a supporter. > > Applicants for a developer account are also required give their real > name. While this can easily be faked, I think that step has the > psychological effect of implied responsibility. Someone is less likely > to do deliberately stupid things if they do so under their own name > than they are when calling themselves "turdNINJA1988".
OK, so forget the parallelism with SVN/GIT accounts. The suggestion remains: to allow everyone to edit and close bugs, as is apparently the case in some other bug trackers. -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. KDE Frameworks 5
