Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.

Eli Carter
2002-11-18T16:47:54Z

Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:31:04PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
>
>>David S. Miller wrote:
>>
>>>What is so difficult about allowing anyone to review and close a bug?
>>
>>Does Buzilla have some "undo everything Jerry Erk did recently"
>>feature ? If not, the incompetent and the practical jokers might
>>become a problem.
>
>
> There's a good example extant where this isn't a problem: Wikipedia.
> In their example, vandalism increases, but so does clean-up. Dave's
> idea lets us scale the number of Bugzilla janitors. We won't get
> perfect scaling, but it's much better than not scaling.
>

Changes to wiki's are version controlled, with links to those versions,
so it's a simple matter to revert the vandalism... less work than the
vandalism itself. Is the same true for bugzilla?

Eli
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