Nelson B wrote:
I just started to read this, and need to read it more tomorrow. One initial point. I think we're sending mixed signals to readers about where is the appropriatre place for them to add comments about individual CA applications.
I've been telling people to disucss it in the newsgroup, NOT in bugzilla.
I believe bugzilla is NOT the place for general advocacy discussions.
I believe the comments in bugzilla about a particular application should
be limited to
a) the sole champion of the CA
b) the "module owner" of the certificates module
c) any developers specifically tasked with doing the jobs of making source changes.
d) mozilla foundation members.
I'm with David Ross on this one. This should be a public process (as the policy explicitly specifies) and we can't and shouldn't limit who can comment on bugs related to CA certificates.
My point is this. The BUG TRACKING system is not a place for advocacy of any kind, on topic or off. It is a place for technical issues to be disucssed. If there was a technical problem with adding one of the proposed CA certs to the trust list, the bug would be the right place for it to be discussed, because the discussion would help the assignee of the bug to solve the technical problem. That's what the bug tracking system is for. NOT FOR ADVOCACY.
Advocacy belongs in newsgroups. News servers as designed to handle lots of load and high message traffic regardless of reason or merit. They also drop traffic after a certain age. A news server can bound its disk space arbitrarily.
The bug tracking system remembers every comment to every bug as long as the bug tracking system survives. The bug server's disk space requirements grow and grow. We don't want the bug system's disk filling up with advocacy. And we don't want developers to have to sift through hundreds of advocacy messages to find the few technical details needed to fix the bug.
Developers inherently understand this. Non-developers do not. This is why I advocate limiting the ability to add to BUGS in the BUG TRACKING system to the people who need to use the bug tracking system (developers, and bug submittors).
I'm all for open discussions, in the newsgroups, where they belong.
-- Nelson B
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