On 29/05/05, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)robla.net> wrote:
1. I've included links to several bugs. I'd
like to file a tracking
bug in BZ which is blocked by those bugs so that I get the benefit of
two-way links to all of the bugs. However, it doesn't appear that
metabugs are standard practice here. Is that by policy? More to the
point, would anyone mind if I filed an "Access control" tracking bug?
Don't take this as in any way authoritative, but my impression was
that appropriate tracking bugs are fine - there's even a rather
amusing tracking bug for tracking tracking bugs!
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2007
However, I note that there is already a tracking bug for the new "user
and group rights" system which will hopefully be finally releasable
for 1.5.0 (
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767) which
overlaps somewhat with most discussions on access control in general.
But maybe a more general tracking bug could simply depend on 767, with
that bug reserved for issues specifically caused by that new
framework.
As you rightly say on your meta page, *authentication* is a separate
issue, which may have its own issues to deal with.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]