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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Proposal: remove the restriction on normal Bugzilla users being able to change the Severity fiel
From:       Nate Graham <nate () kde ! org>
Date:       2021-06-19 15:32:22
Message-ID: 0fbc227e-6df5-8844-d6c2-3ac1ca4c6791 () kde ! org
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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.

Nate


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