[hibernate-dev] Relaxing JIRA assignment restrictions

[Sanne Grinovero]

I'm not "taking over" but I made the following two changes:

# any user is now "assignable"
This seems rather non-dangerous as the persons who can actually assign
didn't change so it doesn't really give more permissions to anyone. I
guess the drawback is the auto-completion of our options will now show
a quite larger list of user ids to choose among; I hope this won't be
unpractical.

# the Reporter can assign issues
This implies one can create and self-assign. Unfortunately it also
means someone can create and assign to one of us. I hope this will be
more useful than what it will be abused.. let'see, we can change it
back in case of need.

Thanks,
Sanne



On 21 November 2017 at 17:16, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> If you want to take over management of groups and other security concerns in
> Jira from me, I am all for that ;)
>
> Look for the global groups developers and dev-team and their usage.  I think
> its things like the ability to close issues, re-open them, etc.  Sorry, I am
> swamped and dont have time to fully research.  I looked quickly but Jira's
> permissions are not easy to sift through imo
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:39 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 21 November 2017 at 15:33, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> > Because we allow certain elevated privileges to people who can be
>> > assigned
>> > issues.
>>
>> Do you have a concrete example? I'm happy to reconfigure "certain
>> elevated privileges" to work on the proper group rather than depending
>> on assign-ability, if you could hint me into what kind of things I
>> should look out for.
>>
>> I'd just want the option to assign issues to anyone in the "users" group.
>> This is apparently now an option in JIRA, and would allow people in
>> "users" to self-assign issues - as long as they are the issue creator.
>> Seems useful?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sanne
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017, 6:57 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I'm being frequently asked to add new contributors to "the right
>> >> groups" on JIRA just for the sake of being able to assign issues to
>> >> them.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not sure why it's useful to prevent this for anyone to do being
>> >> able to do this, and also I suspect some people might be more inclined
>> >> to "just do it" if they had a clearer, more welcoming approach to
>> >> signal that they're looking into the issue themselves.
>> >>
>> >> Any objections to relax this requirement?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Sanne
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