GNATS-only accounts and Bugzilla

[Daniel Berlin]

On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 06:42  AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> Overseers, Dan,
>
> currently we have a few GNATS-only account for contributors who help
> with GNATS but did not need CVS write access.
>
> How should we handle these when switching to Bugzilla? Should we create
> regular accounts on gcc.gnu.org for them (so that they have a 
> gcc.gnu.org
> mail address)?
This is easiest, to be honest.
Only because then they fall under the auto-group regexp (IE any account 
matching *.gcc.gnu.org has edit access, without having to be explicitly 
added).

One can explicitly add bugzilla accounts to the appropriate groups, but 
if you can avoid having to do it, ...

>
> I'm asking because Wolfgang has suggested a new GNATS-only account, and
> if we plan to switch such accounts anyway, we probably should start 
> doing
> so now and avoid creating any further GNATS-only accounts.
>
> Gerald
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