Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I've linked the new policy from [[mw:Bugzilla]]. (In general, some sort of announcement when policies are enacted would be nice.) I didn't remember hearing of any such new policy coming and the only mention of rights removal was James_F on IRC saying he no longer was admin but was still able to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-24 Thread Andre Klapper
Trying to reply to this thread in one message: On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 22:33 +0100, Alex Monk wrote: I've just found out that WMF's Bugmeister Andre Klapper removed nearly everyone's Bugzilla adminship Thanks for everybody's comments, and especially Sumana for quickly summarizing the situation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-24 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: [...] Version 4.2 of Bugzilla that we run now finally creates a log of taxonomy changes. It is planned to set up a cronjob to regularly inform me (and other admins interested) of changes that took place [6], as another backup source of information

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-24 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi Tim, On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 15:14 +, Tim Landscheidt wrote: Perhaps we could dump the taxonomy regularly to a wiki? Then non-admins could watch that page and keep themselves informed as well. Could you file an enhancement request in bugzilla.wikimedia.org under Wikimedia Bugzilla so we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/22/2013 03:02 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: On 2013-06-22 6:49 PM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 June 2013 22:33, Alex Monk kren...@gmail.com wrote: I've just found out that WMF's Bugmeister Andre Klapper removed nearly everyone's Bugzilla adminship (and people with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: My understanding is that approximately everyone who had their admin access removed simply got membership in groups to do the things they wanted to do, e.g., create new products, components, milestones, etc.

[Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-22 Thread Alex Monk
I've just found out that WMF's Bugmeister Andre Klapper removed nearly everyone's Bugzilla adminship (and people with root access on the servers now have access to a file which contains login details for an 'emergency admin' account). So I have some questions: * Who was removed? * Who still has

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-22 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 22 June 2013 22:33, Alex Monk kren...@gmail.com wrote: I've just found out that WMF's Bugmeister Andre Klapper removed nearly everyone's Bugzilla adminship (and people with root access on the servers now have access to a file which contains login details for an 'emergency admin' account).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-22 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-06-22 6:49 PM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 June 2013 22:33, Alex Monk kren...@gmail.com wrote: I've just found out that WMF's Bugmeister Andre Klapper removed nearly everyone's Bugzilla adminship (and people with root access on the servers now have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Bugzilla admins

2013-06-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
I'd also like to know this information. Being a Bugzilla admin and helping out with the bug workflow and security issues and whatnot has always been something I've wanted to do. But if the WMF is trying to consolidate for some reason... *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class