Hi Tony, This sounds great. Did you make the change? ( I’m a dev so I’m not sure I would have noticed it not happening ).
-Steve On Jul 10, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Tony Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, All: > > Till pointed out recently that it's very difficult to involve people in > issues using shares and mentions, because of the way our JIRA instance is > configured: > > http://issues.gpii.net/browse/GPII-869 > > Right now, we only allow our developers to see the list of users on our JIRA > instance, which means that only developers can easily share tickets using the > built in share and "at mention" mechanisms. > > I would propose opening this up so that people can more easily involve other > members of the community who we have not set up as developers in our > instance. This seems much more in keeping with our overall philosophy of > inclusion. > > The only small concern is that the "browse user" permission allows users to > see each other's email address. If this is a concern at all, I would propose > configuring JIRA to not show email addresses. It will still be possible to > share content with other users through mentions and shares. > > The model is similar to LinkedIn, where you only know the user's LinkedIn > credentials and they can choose whether to share anything further with you. > > I am putting this out for discussion today. If there are no objections by > close of business tomorrow, I will go ahead and allow all JIRA users to see > other users and hide user email addresses in JIRA. Each change is easily > reversible if there are any concerns or we choose to do things differently. > > Cheers, > > > Tony > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gpii.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture
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