Max Kanat-Alexander writes: > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:28:51 -0500 James Carlson > <james.d.carl...@sun.com> wrote: > > We use that "security" flag to bowdlerize bug reports. Bugzilla > > seems to have no equivalent. > > You can protect a bug from being viewed using Bugzilla's > security groups. You cannot hide individual fields, but you can hide > individual comments.
I've looked, and I don't see anything like that in the user interface. Perhaps I haven't looked in the right places, though, or maybe it's just that our version is too old. I don't see anything related to "security." The sort of feature we need is the ability for the person filing the bug or anyone editing it to set a flag indicating that the bug has "security implications" and thus must be handled carefully. > > The "Version" field can't be edited once set. Why's that? > > It can be... I was confused by the change of the field type when there's exactly one "Version" value available. > > The RM field in Bugster is really a "non-NULL technology owner" > > field. It would be nice to have a field like this in Bugzilla: > > something automatically assigned by the Component selected that > > gives an owner that can be contacted about progress (or lack > > thereof) for a bug, regardless of what "Assignee" is set. This > > would be sort of like the "QA Contact" field, but would very > > likely have a _real_ email address. > > For just this functionality, you could use Default Cc. I don't think I agree. Yes, a "Default Cc" would help make sure that person gets a copy of the bug, but it doesn't clearly identify who has reponsibility here. If you want to call it "default contact" or some such, rather than "technology owner," then that'd be fine. At least in Bugster, it's a role that's quite distinct from being the RE/Assignee. What I would like to have is something equivalent to that field. The usage model is that if I either file a bug or search and locate an old bug, I can always contact someone "responsible" for the bug directly and ask questions (such as "do you think you will ever have someone work on this?"), and I can do so without adding noise to the bug report itself. The only reliable thing I can do with Bugzilla today is add yet another comment saying "hello? anyone home?" -- which more often than not just adds to the chaff. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carl...@sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
