Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:04:02 -0600 | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available. |
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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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