OpenAFS RT changes (was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: Moving Forwards)

[Dave Botsch]

Can you clarify "a bug" below? Does this qualify as "any bug" or "any
bug not in the security queue"?



On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:33:54PM +0100, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> On 10 Sep 2012, at 16:30, Andrew Deason wrote:
> 
> > Aside from the spam/abuse angle, which people have covered ("it's a
> > problem, but tractable")... many extant RT accounts are pretty
> > restricted. IIRC, I can't 'steal' ownership of anything, or comment on
> > any ticket I'm not explicitly included on, which makes it pretty darn
> > difficult to use.
> > 
> > I think that means I can't 'resolve' things owned by other people unless
> > I get them to explicitly reassign ownership. I also cannot 'delete' spam
> > tickets and such.
> > 
> > Opening _that_ much up I believe is simpler.
> 
> Okaty, so as a first step, let's fix this. I believe that this is just a case of changing the permission set, and possibly the list of users with a given permissions.
> 
> I believe a while back, the offer was made to do this, providing that we had some agreement on what those permission sets should be.
> 
> So, I'm proposing the following sets:
> 
> guest:
> 	As present, can view the openafs-bugs queue, but can't update them
> 
> commenter:
> 	Can do anything to a bug, but can't delete it, or merge it with another bug, (these are potentially irreversible steps in RT)
> 
> developer:
> 	Can do anything to a bug
> 
> And then the existing set of permissions for the security queue. All active accounts would be by default in the 'commentor' state. Anyone who meets my earlier criteria for +2 access to gerrit would also be in the developer set.
> 
> And then we solve the issue of how to do automatic signup as a separate step.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.
> 
> 
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