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[Micah Gersten <micahg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/07/2011 01:39 PM, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> According to Curtis, currently any logged-in user has the ability to
> create Packagings, i.e. indicate that a ProductSeries is packaged in a
> given SourcePackage.
>
> With the new translation sharing between ProductSeries and
> SourcePackages, Packagings will have significant side-effects.  Creating
> a Packaging will cause translations to be merged, so that they can be
> shared going forward.  Deleting a packaging will cause the translations
> to be split.  Merging and splitting can cause information loss, so it is
> best to avoid bogus merges.
>
> This suggests that we should restrict the ability to create and destroy
> Packagings.  Curtis mentioned that in his experience, Packagings created
> by members of Project teams were low-quality, compared with Packagings
> created by Packagers.  So perhaps we should restrict Packaging creation
> to those with upload rights on the relevant source packages.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Aaron

What about making Bug Supervisor the minimum requirement for this?

Thanks,
Micah