Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.

Oliver Xymoron
2002-11-18T16:57:23Z

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:53:32AM -0600, Eli Carter wrote:
> 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?

Yes, simply close or reopen bugs. Anyone can still submit bugs, so
it's not as if there wasn't already a ripe outlet for vandalism. I
don't see that opening up the rest of the system makes this worse..

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