Roger Håkansson <[email protected]> writes: > On 2010-04-05 15:02, Peter FELECAN wrote: >> Sebastian Kayser<[email protected]> writes: >> >>> as discussed in [1] I have finally elevated the global privileges for >>> all maintainers in Mantis to DEVELOPER. This means, everyone should now >>> be able to do everyday work on bugs (like moving or assigning) for _all_ >>> packages, not just the ones which one specifically owns. >>> >>> Questions or anything not working as expected? Please let me know. >>> >>> Sebastian >>> >>> [1]http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2010-January/011158.html >> >> And this answers to what requirement(s)? > > First of all, we have a ton of packages either orphaned or "owned" by > absent/retired/... maintainers and if someone else starts to work on > fixing a bug, he can't communicate with the bug reporter as its > intended (set the status to feedback) until he has released a new > package and becomes maintainer for the package. > > Also, another problem which also relates to orphaned packages is this: > Say that you want to fix a problem in package A (which you are > maintainer for) which depends on B which depends on C which depends on > D. And you know that the problem is solved by upgrading/turning on a > config-option in D so that C can autoconfig itself differently so B > behaves diffrently which fixes the problem in A. > Mantis have a good feature where you can daisy-chain bugs so you can > see which bug needs to be fixed first and when its fixed the next > maintainer can move on and so on. > Without developer access the only way for the maintainer of A to > achieve this is to report a bug on each package, mail the maintainers > and ask them to manually chain them, and in case of orphaned packages, > ask the admins to do it, even though the maintainer of A could do this > all by him self if he had the correct permissions. > (Which you can do now)
Thank you for this very satisfactory explanation. >> Strangely, the assignment was not a feature available for a "developer" >> in the messages that you refer but now it changes? > > Well, thats my fault, I remembered wrong what privileges a "developer" > and a "manager" has, its been a while since I ran Mantis... Alright, I wasn't aware about the ability to assign in that way. I'm not very comfortable but can live with. Thank you again. -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
