Re: Bugs in Bugzilla

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Joe Shaw <joe helixcode com> writes:

> > The default permissions for new accounts lets anyone change any part
> > of a bug; instead I think only maintainers of a package should be able
> > to change bug status by default.
> 
> Hrm. I tend to feel that anyone with an account should be able to change
> any bug but that only developers should have accounts. Meaning, you don't
> need an account to submit a bug, but you need one to change it. Of course,
> I suppose this doesn't really work if you were the submitter and want to
> add information. We could probably have a seperate page for adding
> information (addition comments, URL, screenshots, whatever) to the bug by
> anyone.

I'm going to change this now so that newly added accounts don't have this
permission. I tried this out with a test account and when you submit a bug,
you can still change all aspects of _this_ bug, you just cannot change
other people's bugs (but you can still add comments to them).

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Martin Baulig
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