On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Martin Pool <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 March 2011 05:56, Jonathan Lange <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello Launchpadders, >> >> I recently had a chat with the Kernel developers about how they use >> Launchpad. They posed me an interesting problem. >> >> They have bugs that they must keep public, for reasons of both >> principle and practicality. However, they don't really want anyone >> outside of an authorized set of people actually *doing* anything to >> those bugs. Outsiders change tags, statuses and add unhelpful comments >> and the Ubuntu developers would like to stop that from happening. >> >> What options do they have with Launchpad as it stands? What could we >> cheaply change in Launchpad to meet that need better? > > I think it would be interesting and perhaps reasonably cheap to add > two checkboxes per bug: "lock status" and "lock comments". They can > be changed by bug supervisors of any task. If the former is set, task > fields (status, importance, etc) can't be changed and new tasks can't > be created, except by bug supervisors. If the latter is set, comments > and attachments can't be added, again except by bug supervisors. > (Perhaps s/bug supervisors/some other role/; the intention being that > only developers can change it.) > > I don't anticipate this would be set on many bugs but there are some > very hot bugs where it could be useful. > > I like this idea because it may be a path to removing some special > case ACLs that exist at the moment (eg limits on moving into triage > state; wishes for limits on moving out of triage state; opinion state; > wishes for locking to wontfix). Unlike those ACLs this can be put in > place only when something is actually a problem rather than slowing > down community triage in general. (There is some similarity to > Wikipedia page protection.) > > If combined with a final comment by a developer explaining where the > bug ought to be discussed, how people can express their desire it be > fixed, or what else people can do, it might help.
How long do you reckon it would take to do? jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
