[Hamara-devel] what privileges/functionality has been kept in bugzilla for admins ?

[Amardeep Singh]

at bottom :-
On Thursday 30 April 2015 12:30 AM, shirish wrote:
> at bottom :-
>
> On 04/30/2015 12:10 AM, Amardeep Singh wrote:
>> in line -:
>>
>> On Thursday 30 April 2015 12:07 AM, Amardeep Singh wrote:
>>> Hi Shirish,
>>>
>>> I have assigned you permission for " *canconfirm:*Can confirm a bug or
>>> mark it a duplicate" can you re-check or try again.
>>>
>>> What you are suggesting is this permissions should be global rather
>>> then admin only?
>>>
>>> Here <https://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.4/en/html/useradmin.html> is
>>> list of permission options available.
>> Forgot to mention the current permission allowed globally is "editbugs"
>>
>> Amardeep
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Amardeep
>
> <snipped>
>
> something seems to be wrong here. I had asked on the bugzilla-support 
> mailing list just to confirm the behaviour I had seen with bugzilla 
> before and this was his reply.
>
> Subject: Re: how to disassociate a bug mistakenly put as a duplicate 
> of another bug ?
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:34:12 +0100
> From: Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org>
> To: shirish <shirish at hamaralinux.org>
> Newsgroups: Mozilla.support.bugzilla
> References: 
> <mailman.2489.1430328221.29279.support-bugzilla at lists.mozilla.org>
>
> On 29/04/15 18:24, shirish wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Is there a way to disassociate a bug which was mistakenly put as a
> > duplicate of another bug ?
>
> Yes. Just reopen the bug.
>
> Gerv
>
> So what should have happened is that bug should have been closed the 
> moment I made it a duplicate and I should have had the possibility of 
> re-opening the bug. As shared by you, I am only able to confirm bugs.
>
> In almost all open-source projects the bug-reporter does have the 
> authority to reopen a bug. There are numerous benefits of it, the 
> easiest is to an update breaks the functionality of the bug which was 
> resolved. Second is if the bug-reporter is not happy with the admin's 
> resolution. If we want to have honest feedback from our users then 
> that 'privilege' or 'right' would need to be shared.
>
> What could be done is that you could have a count of say opening 10 
> bugs or 15 bugs which need to be confirmed by admin or users but that 
> 'right' or 'privilege' would eventually need to be given. This does 
> gamify bugzilla little bit but did read some months back that they do 
> have ideas to gamify bugzilla as it's used by only 'serious people' or 
> that's what they were claiming.
>
> Anyways, look forward to feedback and hopeful change in this regard.
>
> The easiest way to see how bugzilla is functioning in other places is 
> to see bugzilla's implementation on Mozilla. Try doing what I was 
> trying to do here (even as a new user) and see the difference.
>
> Of course it needs to be a valid bug, not so hard if you take the 
> alpha nightly build from Firefox or Thunderbird and try to use it 
> through some phases. The moment it breaks, look at the bugzilla db 
> with the version number, put it up with that build details, make it a 
> duplicate and then reopen it.
>
> Look forward to feedback.
I am not able to understand Shirish your expectation here.

Are you saying bugzilla doesn't have functionality to re-open bug by user?
or the behaviour you expecting doesn't exists in bugzilla?

Did you tried doing it again after I applied the new permissions?

Bugzilla is widely used so I am sure it does work as expected.

Thanks,
Amardeep