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Re: GCC Bugzilla account creation configuration
On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
>
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 06:11:18PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > [...]
> > Thanks. We currently have 14 people (16 accounts) with editusers access
> > (most not currently on the gcc-bugzilla-account-request alias). I think
> > we should be willing to give this access (and add to the alias) any
> > reasonably established volunteers interested in helping with account
> > creation.
>
> Having learned about bugzilla's limitations (that "editusers" is
> "admin"-equivalent), and about how little qualification is being
> required from volunteers, I no longer support this idea. I don't much
> like the status quo ante, but it seems less dangerous.
It was said that it shouldn't be hard to change Bugzilla locally so
editusers can't change permission bits on users without having changing
those bits explicitly enabled. I don't know if anything has actually been
done in that regard, however.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com