On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:03:10PM +1200, Matthew Thomas 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 Well, currently, anyone can subscribe to a package. > , how would that be useful for granting permissions? We'd still have a bug contact slot for permissions. I realize the name would be inappropriate then -- do you have a suggestion? > 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. I agree -- it's important to have the two different mechanisms, and having them be separate makes general sense (though I think that in general if you are responsible for a package's decisions you are not doing a good job if you don't know what bugs are being filed against it.) -- Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3376 0125
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