Proposal: remove the restriction on normal Bugzilla users being able to change the Severity field

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 3:32 AM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:

> On 6/19/21 9:26 AM, David Edmundson wrote:
> >> The reason for this change was to stop users with excessive ego from
> marking their own tickets and tickets they care deeply about as having the
> "critical" Severity level.
> >
> > So what will we do to avoid getting this situation back?
> > I don't care if a user changes it once, but users who constantly set
> > their minor UI concern to critical gets tiring quickly. Angrily
> > closing doesn't work because you can get threads with multiple people
> > and then that isn't fair.
> >
> > David
>
> I might recommend taking those on a case-by-case basis, by removing
> severity-modification privileges for just the problematic users who
> abuse the system.
>
> I have Bugzilla permission to do so, and perhaps this power could be
> granted to more people, like you.
>

Please note that if we remove the restrictions on severity modification,
then it will not be possible to remove those privileges from problematic
users.
Our only solution in that case will be to ban the problematic user.


>
> Nate
>

Regards,
Ben
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