On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:51 +0000, Christopher Brown wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Lex Hider <floss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wanting to do some bug triage for fedora. > > I checked out the list of NEW bugs for one of my favourite apps: amarok. > > There seemed a pretty obvious bug that could now be closed: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248625 > > > > I tried to close it and found I didn't have the privileges to do so. > > I asked on #fedora-devel and was pointed to the triage team wiki page > > and that I need a Fedora Account. > > > > Apparently to open a Fedora account I need to give my postal address and > > telephone number. Why is it necessary to give this personal information > > just to close a bug? > > > > Contrast to other projects I have contributed to where some realizes you > > know what you are doing or get sick of you pestering to close bugs on > > your behalf and give you the relevant privileges. > > > > Here's an example of my bug closing credentials: > > Look at Bug Killers: > > http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2006-04-30/ > > Hello Lex, > > Great that you're wanting to do some triage work and yeah, that bug is > the kind of stuff that we don't need hanging around any longer. :) > > As for the information side of things, FAS is used for a number of > things, including the ability to create packages in Fedora and there > has to, at some point, be some accountability for how this happens. > With bugzilla triage privs you get the ability to modify to great > extent the bugs in Red Hat's main bug tracking system so I think its > understandable for this to be asked. Someone with legal knowledge > might want to add to this though. > > Best place to hang out for triaging is #fedora-qa on IRC and the two > bods leading the charge are John Poelstra and Jon Stanley. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonStanley > > We have a meeting today at 1700 UTC in #fedora-meeting - would be good > to have you there as well. > > Cheers > > -- > Christopher Brown I think that meeting is around 4am local time, so I may have to give it a miss. Perhaps you could put on the agenda how high the barrier for entry is. Not only do I have to create a separate Fedora account aside form the bugzilla that I have, I have to give out my personal details, and then I have to learn enough about gpg to make a key to sign up for the account. If I have to jump through all the above hoops just to close trivial bugs, I'm not sure if I'll bother. I can see no reason why anyone would need my address and phone number. What is stopping anyone from putting in fake ones. I was tempted just to enter address as something like: 27 Gumdrop House Lolly Pop Lane. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/owww-look-at-me-marge-i-m-making-people-happy-i-m/748180.html) Surely entering the phone number and address details is useless without verification anyway. Lex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
