bugzilla, it's products, how they relate to projects. it's a mess...

[Ilmari Lauhakangas]

I want to add something: one intimidating thing is that a new 
contributor needs to request editing rights to Bugzilla. Perhaps this 
was enforced when someone got fed up with reporters toggling statuses, 
but I think having such a fence is the wrong way to deal with this. 
People typically need to hunt for the right person to ask, be patient 
etc. It is the opposite of streamlined onboarding.

In LibreOffice, we only restrict priority and severity and even those 
upwards from medium/normal. We monitor messy stuff with a script: 
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=dev-tools.git;a=history;f=esc-reporting/qa-tools.py

Ilmari

On 31.01.2018 19:25, Nate Graham wrote:
> Yes, I plan to do a big overhaul soon. But don't let that stop others
> who want to have a go, too.
> 
> Nate
> 
> On 01/31/2018 10:24 AM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:19:25 CET Luigi Toscano wrote:
>> 
>>> For the record, we have documentation about this. We just don't have 
>>> an
>>> active BugSquad team around as it was before:
>>> 
>>> https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging
>>> 
>>> https://community.kde.org/Bugsquad
>> 
>> Yes, Nate linked to that as well -- but that's a seriously 
>> intimidating
>> document! And even I had trouble reading it to the end.
>> 
>>