Re: Upstream access to Ubuntu package bugs

[Bjorn Tillenius <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:03:10PM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2007, at 3:19 AM, Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:35:26AM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>> ...
>>>     - We could offer a per-package official bug contact, which would
>>>       still be official Ubuntu QA, but only for a specific package.
>>
>> I was going to suggest something like this. Tom is currently working on
>> 'structual subscriptions', which will allow you to subscribe to
>> different objects, for example projects and packages. When that is done, 
>> we can convert the existing package bug contacts to subscriptions, and 
>> then we can use package bug contacts to give permission for working on 
>> bugs for a specific package.
>
> If anyone will be able to subscribe to a package, how would that be useful 
> for granting permissions?
>
> I don't think there's a connection between subscriptions and permissions 
> (except that watching the former may eventually give maintainers an idea of 
> who deserves the latter). Someone may have good reasons for being able to 
> alter bug reports on a particular package while not being subscribed, and 
> conversely someone may have good reasons for being subscribed to a package 
> while not having permissions to alter its bugs.

Maybe you misunderstood what I meant. I was saying that we should have
both package subscriptions and package bug contacts. Anyone should be
able to subsdribe to a package, and that doesn't give them any extra
permissions. As for becoming a package bug contact, only certain people
(like Ubuntu QA) should be able to make someone a bug contact, and being
a bug contact means that you'll have permission to edit importance, and
such. Being a bug contact shouldn't necessarily mean that you get bug
notifications for that package.

Regards,

Bjorn