On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 08:33 -0800, Chad wrote:
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
I like the idea of giving everyone who has editbugs the right to give other people the editbugs permission. That's certainly worth a try assuming it's possible to configure.
I want to underscore this again. I think this is a great idea and I haven't seen any objections to it yet. Can we go ahead with this proposal?
There seems to be sufficient support to grant users who have "editbugs" rights the permission to hand out (and revert) editbugs rights to/of other users.
If we did this, users with editbugs rights can go to "Links > Administration > Users", enter the email address of a user, and hand out editbugs to other users.
However, the right to hand out editbugs rights to other users cannot be handed out recursively: If I give user X the right to hand out editbugs permissions to other users, then user X can only give editbugs to user Y him/herself, but user Y will NOT automatically be able to hand out editbugs to user Z.
For the records: Currently 14744 Wikimedia Bugzilla users have editbugs permissions (so this is something to do via an SQL command instead of me clicking myself to death in Bugzilla's web interface).
andre