On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Robert Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:56 AM, 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 the cheapest thing would be another knob adjacent to the one > to disable duplicate bug prompting which would say 'restrict public > bug changes to the bug reporter and holders of the bug control role' > [or something understandable along those lines]. > > This would limit some or all of [at our discretion when we make the change]: > - subscribing to bugs > - marking as dup > - changing metadata [status, tags, ...] > - commenting > > I think this would be a few days work, plus latency for the db deploy. > It has minimal UI impact because: > - option only project admins see > - we already know that some users (anonymous) cannot change or > comment on bugs, so we should be fairly prepared for dealing with that > with a wider group.
I agree with Rob's suggested approach. It's also quite cheap to implement. We already have several userCanXXX methods, and we would need an additional check in there for "is the lock-bug flag switched on." As for additional UI suggestions, I'm in favor of a simple "Lock bug" link (in the same portlet as the "Mark as duplicate" link, as Rob suggests), which is only available for the appropriate people to use, with perhaps a help pop-up going into detail about what locking a bug means. Cheers, deryck -- Deryck Hodge https://launchpad.net/~deryck http://www.devurandom.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
