On 3/13/06, Kristian Waagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have I missed why we are not allowed to delete stuff from Jira anymore? > I saw Kathey was unable to delete a comment, and I am not able to delete > an attachment I would like to replace. > I tried deleting from a issue I both reported and was assigned to (I was > even logged in!), but the delete controls are not there anymore. > > Is this a change of policy, or just a issue that will go away in a > little while?
I was concerned last week when an entire issue was deleted, and I double-checked the permissions and some permissions (like delete) were granted too widely, in my opinion, allowing any jira user to perform them. Deleting an issue (which is then not recoverable), I restricted to the derby-administrators group, although I had not realized at the time that the delete privilege covers the ability to delete comments and attachments as well, a bit of poor granularity on the part of JIRA's permissions schemes. Others on the list have requested that patches and comments not be deleted from JIRA so that there is a record of how patches progress, along with all relevant comments, so I'm tempted to leave it as-is. Anyone else feel differently? The permanent deletion of issues is a bad thing, I sort of hoped that JIRA would actually keep the records, but it appears not. But if people really want to be able to delete comments, I can give the derby-developers group the delete permission back. andrew
