On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Daniel Zahn dzahn@wikimedia.org wrote:
We are now getting mail to noc@ by users asking us to create accounts for them. I would have created one but don't have that permission on admin.cgi . Who does? Do we even want to do that manually now? Could also be a vandal asking for it, even though unlikely :p
So, here's the solution for now, and probably for a while:
1. New account creation has been re-enabled 2. All existing accounts have been explicitly given the "editbugs" permission 3. New accounts only get the ability to file bugs, comment on bugs, and mark bugs as confirmed
We intend to be very liberal with who we bless with "editbugs", but not so liberal as to incur more vandalism. Having proper vandalism fighting solutions (e.g. especially bug 363346 and probably bug 704753 in bugzilla.mozilla.org) seems like a necessary precondition to going back to the old way of doing things.
Rob