On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 16:24 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:36:54AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > For the record, we do in fact have a policy on this: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow#Priority_and_Severity > > I wouldn't exactly claim that it's universally followed, but it *is* > > there. I do still follow those rules for 'severity' when dealing with > > bugs, for whatever it's worth. > Isn't bugzappers officially defunct? It does seem like a reasonable > enough policy, for whatever that's worth. Yeah, the group is. We can have an exciting debate about whether we consider that to mean the bug status workflow page is no longer 'in effect', but since it never had any enforcement mechanism or anything it seems a tad pointless =) I just wanted to point out we did at least formulate a policy for this at one time, and the policy isn't really particularly tied to the Bugzappers group, it just happens to live there. There are a few other 'living pages' in the Bugzappers wiki space, FWIW, though jkurik and I have talked a bit about moving the relevant material somewhere else. Most obviously, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Trackers is still valid and updated every cycle and the policy and process documented there are current and active. > > It is not in fact true that they "can be changed by anybody" (unless > > the BZ config has been changed in the last few years and I missed it, > > which is entirely possible). Only people with 'editbugs' privileges can > > change them. Lots of people have 'editbugs' privileges one way or > > another, though. > Just checked, and while that's true, anyone can set the _initial_ > state, which is almost the same case. Well, at least if you tend the states for your component's bugs, it means not any old Marlon Rando[1] can change them back again. I'm not sure whether a non-editbugs person who reports a bug can change the statuses after filing. When BZ was active we used to discuss this quite a bit, and there were various ideas for tightening down the permissions, but it's restricted by the fact that we share RHBZ with many other projects, and there was also a general feeling that as so few maintainers seem to actually want to use the statuses anyway, it wasn't really that important (though of course there's a chicken/egg element there). [1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/01/20/martin-randau -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
