removal of JIRA attachments

2007-02-21 Thread Yonik Seeley
As a general rule, I don't think we should be removing attachments (of code) on JIRA issues. - it represents a loss of code... it's not like subversion where you can go back in time. earlier patches can also sometimes be simpler in places, or can take a different approach, and there can be value

Re: removal of JIRA attachments

2007-02-21 Thread Yonik Seeley
And another reason I just thought of... it provides better tracking of IP. Once something goes in JIRA, multiple people might start contributing ideas. If you remove all previous versions, there is no record of the original submission, or who contributed what to the final. -Yonik On 2/21/07, Yo

Re: removal of JIRA attachments

2007-02-21 Thread Doug Cutting
+1 We should not generally remove obsolete attachments in Jira. Doug Yonik Seeley wrote: As a general rule, I don't think we should be removing attachments (of code) on JIRA issues. - it represents a loss of code... it's not like subversion where you can go back in time. earlier patches can a

Re: removal of JIRA attachments

2007-02-21 Thread Michael McCandless
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:04:01 -0500, "Yonik Seeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > As a general rule, I don't think we should be removing attachments (of > code) on JIRA issues. +1 I've been hit by this in the past when I had wanted to diff the original patch against the new one to see details on wh

Re: removal of JIRA attachments

2007-02-21 Thread Doug Cutting
Michael McCandless wrote: Is this (ability to delete patches) something we can disable in Jira? Yes. It is controlled by the "Delete Issues" permission: "Ability to delete issues, comments and attachments." Lucene Java uses Jira's Standard Permissions, and under those, the Contributor role

Re: removal of JIRA attachments

2007-02-21 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 2/21/07, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael McCandless wrote: > Is this (ability to delete patches) something we can disable in Jira? Yes. It is controlled by the "Delete Issues" permission: "Ability to delete issues, comments and attachments." Lucene Java uses Jira's Standard

Re: removal of JIRA attachments

2007-02-21 Thread Doug Cutting
Yonik Seeley wrote: I don't think most of us can see JIRA roles, so I don't know how they map to the groups like lucene-developer, but I think committers (or the lucene-developers JIRA group) still need removal privs (to remove spam, IP issues, *real* removal requests, etc). Sorry. For Lucene

Re: removal of JIRA attachments

2007-02-21 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Yes. It is controlled by the "Delete Issues" permission: "Ability to : delete issues, comments and attachments." Lucene Java uses Jira's : Standard Permissions, and under those, the Contributor role has this : permission. We can switch Lucene Java to use a clone of Standard : Permissions call

Re: removal of JIRA attachments

2007-02-21 Thread Doug Cutting
Chris Hostetter wrote: ... if because of jira settings we are forced to choose between: 1) deletes are completely impossible 2) only members of "lucene-developers" jira group can delete 3) people can delete their own attachments ...i would choose #1 for safety (better to have a ton of c