> On Oct 14, 2025, at 17:35, Jim DeLaHunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2025-10-14 15:58, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>>> On Oct 14, 2025, at 2:59 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello, developers:
>>> 
>>> I would appreciate it if user <[email protected]> could be given enough 
>>> access permissions on <https://bugs.gnucash.org/> to be able to edit bug 
>>> reports. Specifically, I would like to be able to change which component a 
>>> bug is labelled with, and mark that one bug is dependent on another bug. 
>>> From reading the docs[1] that might mean granting me "editbugs" permission. 
>>> But maybe the permissions list on this Bugzilla instance is different from 
>>> the docs.
>>> 
>>> This arises specifically out of a gnucash-users discussion[2] about a 
>>> request for enhancement about reports[3] which is labelled with "Component: 
>>> General". I am inclined to fix such details if I am given access to.
>>> 
>>> For now, I will post comments in the bugs describing the changes I would 
>>> like to see.
>> Jim,
>> 
>> Sorry, no. The edit_bugs privilege offers too many opportunities for abuse 
>> for us to allow non core team members to have it. Unfortunately BZ offers no 
>> way to create a per-field privilege.
>> 
>> Referring to bugs in comments is actually the best way to connect them in 
>> BZ: The See Also field is easily (and often) ignored and provides no way of 
>> explaining how it might be relevant. The developers don’t use Depends on or 
>> Blocks for managing bugs so there’s not much point in setting them. (The 
>> idea behind them is that if bug F depends on A and C then A and C block F: 
>> You must resolve A and C before you can resolve F. As far as I know there’s 
>> nothing in BZ that actually enforces it.)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> OK, understood. I'll stop asking for changes to See Also, Depends on, or 
> Block entries.
> 
> Could someone with the appropriate access please consider the requests I made 
> to change Component: from General to Reports, and Importance from Ordinary to 
> Enhancement, for the reports-related enhancement requests I just commented in?
> 

Jim,

I’ve already responded on the bugs.

Regards,
John Ralls


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