On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 01:34:53PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Well, there's a lot of stuff to Bugzilla which is local site > configuration, and there _are_ cases where the configuration of RH > Bugzilla is compromised by having to work for both RHEL and Fedora. > > To give an example I've been trying to sort out for _years_ - there is a > somewhat significant flaw in our blocker/NTH process. You nominate a bug > as blocker/NTH by setting it as blocking the tracker bug. But regular > users can't actually set bugs as blocking other bugs, in RH BZ. Only > people with editbugs privileges can. All packagers and Bugzappers have > editbugs privileges, but not all registered users do. So if you're just > a regular Fedora user and you file a bug that should be a blocker - you > can't actually nominate it yourself. You have to ask someone who has > privileges to do it for you. That kind of sucks, and I've had a ticket > with eng ops to get it changed for a long time now, but it hasn't > happened yet, and that's partly due to the fact that it wouldn't > necessarily be good for RHEL if any registered user could alter the > Blocks: field on a bug. > > (For anyone interested in this issue, the current state in the art is > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707252 , where you can > marvel at the utter lack of activity. Sigh. I do suspect that if we had > a Fedora bugzilla, this would have been sorted out by now. Of course, > this one sole issue probably doesn't outweigh the duplication of effort > involved in running a separate Fedora bugzilla, but I'm sure there are > others). >From looking in Bugzilla's documentation this does not seem to be a RHEL vs. Fedora problem since Bugzilla only allows to use a experimental feature to get this fine grained control, which might also not be supported by the Fedora infrastructure team, if they managed Bugzilla. Nevertheless it seems to be easy to workaround, for example by using the whiteboard as an additional way to propose blocker/NTH bugs. It should even be possible to write an additional service that scans for bugs with the respective whiteboard field and adding the bug to the respective tracker bug. Regards Till -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
