On 30/01/2008, Lex Hider <floss(a)lex.hider.name&gt; wrote: > Hi, > I was wanting to do some bug triage for fedora. > I checked out the list of NEW bugs for one of my favourite apps: amarok. > There seemed a pretty obvious bug that could now be closed: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248625 > > I tried to close it and found I didn't have the privileges to do so. > I asked on #fedora-devel and was pointed to the triage team wiki page > and that I need a Fedora Account. > > Apparently to open a Fedora account I need to give my postal address and > telephone number. Why is it necessary to give this personal information > just to close a bug? > > Contrast to other projects I have contributed to where some realizes you > know what you are doing or get sick of you pestering to close bugs on > your behalf and give you the relevant privileges. > > Here's an example of my bug closing credentials: > Look at Bug Killers: > http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2006-04-30/ Hello Lex, Great that you're wanting to do some triage work and yeah, that bug is the kind of stuff that we don't need hanging around any longer. :) As for the information side of things, FAS is used for a number of things, including the ability to create packages in Fedora and there has to, at some point, be some accountability for how this happens. With bugzilla triage privs you get the ability to modify to great extent the bugs in Red Hat's main bug tracking system so I think its understandable for this to be asked. Someone with legal knowledge might want to add to this though. Best place to hang out for triaging is #fedora-qa on IRC and the two bods leading the charge are John Poelstra and Jon Stanley. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonStanley We have a meeting today at 1700 UTC in #fedora-meeting - would be good to have you there as well. Cheers -- Christopher Brown

Now I think of it, it may have something to do with code contributions, copyright assertion, etc etc.

Perhaps fall-out from SCO case.

Anyway, if you can ping either of the two above in #fedora-qa, their handles are poelcat and jds2001 they will be able to set you up quicker I believe. If you want to live at Lolly Pop Lane, by all means :)

I think that meeting is around 4am local time, so I may have to give it a miss. Perhaps you could put on the agenda how high the barrier for entry is. Not only do I have to create a separate Fedora account aside form the bugzilla that I have, I have to give out my personal details, and then I have to learn enough about gpg to make a key to sign up for the account.

If I have to jump through all the above hoops just to close trivial bugs, I'm not sure if I'll bother.

I can see no reason why anyone would need my address and phone number. What is stopping anyone from putting in fake ones.

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:51 +0000, Christopher Brown wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Lex Hider <floss(a)lex.hider.name&gt; wrote: >> Hi, >> I was wanting to do some bug triage for fedora. >> I checked out the list of NEW bugs for one of my favourite apps: amarok. >> There seemed a pretty obvious bug that could now be closed: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248625 >> >> I tried to close it and found I didn't have the privileges to do so. >> I asked on #fedora-devel and was pointed to the triage team wiki page >> and that I need a Fedora Account. >> >> Apparently to open a Fedora account I need to give my postal address and >> telephone number. Why is it necessary to give this personal information >> just to close a bug? >> >> Contrast to other projects I have contributed to where some realizes you >> know what you are doing or get sick of you pestering to close bugs on >> your behalf and give you the relevant privileges. >> >> Here's an example of my bug closing credentials: >> Look at Bug Killers: >> http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2006-04-30/ > Hello Lex, > > Great that you're wanting to do some triage work and yeah, that bug is > the kind of stuff that we don't need hanging around any longer. :) > > As for the information side of things, FAS is used for a number of > things, including the ability to create packages in Fedora and there > has to, at some point, be some accountability for how this happens. > With bugzilla triage privs you get the ability to modify to great > extent the bugs in Red Hat's main bug tracking system so I think its > understandable for this to be asked. Someone with legal knowledge > might want to add to this though. > > Best place to hang out for triaging is #fedora-qa on IRC and the two > bods leading the charge are John Poelstra and Jon Stanley. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonStanley > > We have a meeting today at 1700 UTC in #fedora-meeting - would be good > to have you there as well. > > Cheers > > -- > Christopher Brown I think that meeting is around 4am local time, so I may have to give it a miss. Perhaps you could put on the agenda how high the barrier for entry is. Not only do I have to create a separate Fedora account aside form the bugzilla that I have, I have to give out my personal details, and then I have to learn enough about gpg to make a key to sign up for the account. If I have to jump through all the above hoops just to close trivial bugs, I'm not sure if I'll bother. I can see no reason why anyone would need my address and phone number. What is stopping anyone from putting in fake ones. I was tempted just to enter address as something like: 27 Gumdrop House Lolly Pop Lane. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/owww-look-at-me-marge-i-m-making-people-h...) Surely entering the phone number and address details is useless without verification anyway.

On 30/01/2008, Lex Hider <floss(a)lex.hider.name&gt; wrote: > Hi, > I was wanting to do some bug triage for fedora. > I checked out the list of NEW bugs for one of my favourite apps: amarok. > There seemed a pretty obvious bug that could now be closed: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248625 >