bq. Beyond that I agree that we should limit this to a known set of people
(the contributors).
+1

bq. Maybe discuss this briefly at the next PMC meeting
+1 too.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:12 PM, lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hmm... This is interesting. I think Jira management should be left to the
> committers. One can pretty much mess up a release, and make it hard to
> account for what's in and what's not when jiras are changed the around (the
> ultimate truth can be reconstructed from the git commit records, but that's
> tedious).
> Minimally somebody needs to be able to assign a jira to the person
> providing the patch, if those are committers only that's tedious but OK -
> we've been doing that anyway.Ideally the person could assign an _open_
> issue to him/herself and log work against an issue and change the due data.
> Those seem abilities we could grant to everybody as long as they are
> limited to open issues.
> Beyond that I agree that we should limit this to a known set of people
> (the contributors). Maybe discuss this briefly at the next PMC meeting,
> we're due to have one anyway. I'm willing to host one at Salesforce.
>
> -- Lars
>
>       From: Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com>
>  To: dev <dev@hbase.apache.org>; lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org>
>  Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 9:46 PM
>  Subject: Re: Jira role cleanup
>
> I can make it so that issues can be assigned to non-contributors. Even if
> we don't do that, I believe jira permissions are all about constraining
> current actions, and are not enforced on existing ticketes.
>
> However, the "contributor" role in jira has several other abilities
> associated with it. Right now, in the order they appear in jira:
>
> * edit an issue's due date
> * move issues (between project workflows or projects the user has create
> on)
> * assign issues to other people
> * resolve and reopen issues, assign a fix version (but not close them)
> * manage watchers on an issue
> * log work against an issue
>
> Any of these could also be changed to remove contributors or allow wider
> jira users.
>
> If assignable users can assign to themselves when they don't have the
> assign users permission, then the only one I think we use is "resolve and
> reopen issues." And I don't think I'd want that open to all jira users.
>
> Do we want to have to handle marking issues resolved for folks? It makes
> sense to me, since I usually do that once I push the commit.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:07 PM, lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Not sure what jira does about an assignee when (s)he is removed from the
> > contributors list (I know you have to add a person to the contributors
> list
> > order to assign a jira to them).Other than the committers, we probably
> have
> > at least one jira assigned to a contributor (otherwise why add him/her as
> > contributor).
> > Can we change the jira rules in our space to allow assigning jiras to
> > users even when they're not listed as contributors?
> > We do not have a formal contributor status (why not?), so this list is
> > only needed because of jira.
> > -- Lars
> >
> >      From: Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com>
> >  To: dev <dev@hbase.apache.org>
> >  Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 9:09 AM
> >  Subject: Re: Jira role cleanup
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > +1
> > > I think it would be fine to trim the contributor list too. We can
> always
> > > add people back on demand in order to (re)assign issues.
> > >
> > >
> > I wasn't sure how we generate the list of contributors. But then I
> noticed
> > that we don't link to jira for it like I thought we did[1].
> >
> > How about I make a saved jira query for people who have had jira's
> assigned
> > to them, add a link to that query for our "here are the contributors"
> > section, and then trim off from the role anyone who hasn't been assigned
> an
> > issue in the last year?
> >
> >
> > [1]: http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Sean
>
>
>
>

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