Make it easier for contributors to edit bugs

[Michael Jahn]

On Monday 05 July 2004 17:14, Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:
> On Saturday 03 July 2004 17:28, Michael Jahn wrote:
> > I think it is a good idea to not give them these rights immediately
> > thereby turning away unserious contributors.
>
> Some users would certainly raise the priority of the bugs that interest
> them, while the priority system is used by developers (and bug managers,
> theoretically) to sort the bug reports. So some triage for reporters must
> take place.

This is exactly what I said or at least meant to say by "thereby turning away 
unserious contributors". :-)

[snip]

> I agree. An explicit address is important, and may bring more contributors.
> And this mailing list is in fact perfect for that, as we are here to
> encourage and support new contibutors. I will add this to the guides.

Thanks. I think this is a good solution.

> However, it is important to note that to be an effective bug manager, you
> have to know well the involved application, and have a good relationship
> with the developers and maintainer of the application. After all, the bug  
> management system is designed to give feedback to developers (by
> developers, I don't mean only programmers), so you should know a bit what
> are their expectations, and how they use the bugzilla system. 

I completely agree. 

> The best way 
> to know that is to start posting replies to bugzilla like "I cannot
> reproduce this anymore. Should we close it?", or "I still can reproduce
> this, bla bla bla".

Just to clarify: I did _not_ ask for rights to edit bugs :-)

Michael Jahn