On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org
wrote:
My understanding is that approximately everyone who had their admin access removed simply got membership in groups to do the things they wanted to do, e.g., create new products, components, milestones, etc. For instance, James Forrester went from BZ admin to having pretty much all rights except BZ admin (edit users, products, components, milestones, and see security bugs). I am no longer a BZ admin since the reduction, so I don't know who's got what privileges, but I know it's not just Foundation staff. For some more details on what kinds of tasks require (or might require) Bugzilla admin rights, see
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Bugzilla_administrator_rights_policy#Ta... and
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2013/05/28/understanding-bugzilla-groups-and... . Basically, people can do administrative stuff without being BZ administrators.
This makes a lot of sense. In other words, it wasn't so much as "all the admins were removed" as it was "all the admins were categorized by what they need to be able to do". In that case I totally understand the shift.
The only thing I'd recommend is to still maintain a public list of who has what rights, mainly for the purpose of contact info should somebody need something done in Bugzilla or have a question.
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