[Development] JIRA bug management: users can't close their 'assigned' bugs.

Olivier Goffart olivier at woboq.com
Tue Feb 14 11:45:21 CET 2012


On Tuesday 14 February 2012 11:13:41 Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> I think this mail raises a good point.
> 
> We are very protective of our bugs, maybe it's the time to reconsier jira
> rights now that we have the Qt Project in full swing :)
> 
> I think it would be great if we could get a group of bug triagers started,
> for KDE for example that leads to fewer stale bugs and new contributors
> that discover they can fix bugs while triaging them.
> 
> In order to enable that we would actually have to start giving jira rights
> to people. I don't think there is much reason to expect people would be
> mis-using these.

We just want to protect simple users that just want to raise the priority of 
the bug they report.

I think permissions should be given to anyone who requests them with 
intentions to contribute.
And any approver should be able to give easily permissions to another user.



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