FDO Permissions

[Joel Madero]

Apologies in advance about not including Julien's message, I'm still not
quite sure how to deal with direct email response vs. nabble response so
here is my response to not needing it.

I agree right now there isn't truly a need but as we grow I think that
recognizing who is QA and who isn't will become an issue. I've been
actively and aggressively seeking new QA members and I can say for sure
there are at least 2-3 who have either already started basic triaging or
have shown serious interest. There are also cases where I'm not quite sure
if a user is QA or not (the most notable here is Sasha something who I see
ALL THE TIME in FDO but I never can figure out his role....)

Maybe...just maybe....we can just start using the QA Assigned to? I don't
see the need quite yet but I see that as a potential solution. This way we
can also have a really clear list of who is triaging -- this will also make
future "bug triaging parties" and other mass QA events much easier to
coordinate with a list of email addresses and names who have helped in the
past X months.

My two cents. Happy Monday everyone.


Best Regards,
Joel


On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Joel Madero <jmadero.dev at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about adding some kind of whiteboard status (I know....more....not
> good), that is like "verified and prioritized by a member of QA", then in
> the future when we're cleaning the NEW bugs and prioritizing them we know
> when an experienced user has already done the triaging (vs. the user just
> trying to get us to look at their minor bug faster).
>
> Best Regards,
> Joel
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at suse.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 08:56 -0700, Joel Madero wrote:
>> > I know that this is a touchy subject and needs a lot of discussion
>> > but, how difficult is it to make it so you need permissions to change
>> > priority and severity of a bug? My goal is to at least "kind of" deal
>> > with priorities in the coming months but it's pretty much impossible
>> > if a regular user can go in and set a bug as CRITICAL - HIGHEST
>> > because of a minor alignment issue -- and this is pretty common.
>>
>>         Heh ;+) in that case they need a support contract clearly ;-)
>>
>> >  I think we should start discussing if it's time to close off certain
>> > things in FDO to regular users and start talking about who gets
>> > permissions to do these.
>>
>>         My suspicion is that the other freedesktop projects would hate
>> that,
>> and that this is something that we'd need to share with them; making it
>> rather difficult to fix.
>>
>>         Hence the most-annoying tracker for 'blockers' and so on - I
>> guess we
>> could introduce other trackers for important-but-not-MAB type things
>> but ... there are clearly diminishing returns in interest from very long
>> lists.
>>
>>         ATB,
>>
>>                 Michael.
>>
>> --
>> michael.meeks at suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>>
>>
>
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