On 02/22/12 20:41, David Faure wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2012 16:15:45 Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Toma's blog >> post> lation/> inspired >> me to send you this mail. >> >> Right now our bugzilla is a mess. We have so many bug entries which we >> can't handle. >> Everyone is able to open a new bug, but only a few people are able to >> triage them. >> Most of the bugs are useless(duplicates and wishes). The true bugs are very >> few and most >> of them are being lost by the massive amount of open bugs. >> With such a mess on the bugzilla we are not able to coordinate our work >> using it. >> >> Our projects have different needs, that's why they differ from each >> other(ML etc). >> Every project should be able to choose if everyone will be able to open a >> new bug or not. >> >> In case that a user finds a "true" bug, he can go to the project's irc and >> to ask from someone to >> open the new bug. > Doesn't sound very open.... > > The alternative is the opposite: allowing everyone to edit/move/close bugs. > I'm told this is how some other projects do it, and they say it's working well > in practice. He asked me why we don't do this, and the only reply I could come > up with was the few cases where bugs turned into actual political flamewars; > his answer was obviously "give rights to everyone, and remove rights when > someone abuses them". This is also what we do for SVN/GIT, so why don't we do > this for bugzilla? Presuming people are innocent upfront, rather than guilty > ;) > I tend to think closing duplicate bugs and checking wish list issues can be done by a non-developer contributers. In which case there should be an option by which a particular user can be CCd to for a specific program(s). There should be an entry about this in the wiki pages also (contributing). As of the current time, it appears that the real bugs ( there are a lot of them) gets eclipsed with too many duplicates, unnecessary feature requests and wrong info.