On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:28:16AM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote: > > > --On 15. April 2008 17:39:26 -0300 Christian Robottom Reis > <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:25:37AM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote: >>> last night, roughly 20 tickets of the Zope 2 tracker were marked as >>> Invalid by a person (never heard its name) which is no part of the Zope >>> 2 developers group on LP. >> >> It's an unfortunate consequence of hosting bugs openly. In Launchpad we >> try to strike the right balance between making it easy for people to use >> and modify bugs and keeping the crackpots out, and in this case, it >> seems like the crackpot won. Can you tell me privately what user it was >> so I can contact him and follow up? Usually just following up with the >> end-user resolves the issue. > > I don't see why hosting bugs openly conflicts with the requirement exposing > the option to change the workflow state only to the core team as part of > bugtracker specfic configuration. It doesn't, but it's the slippery slope of options that change project semantics, and the confusing UI and harder-to-test codebase that comes with them. I'm not saying we won't do it, just giving rationale as to why the option is not there today. -- Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3376 0125
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