Julian Mehnle wrote: >>Who should be allowed to close bug reports? > Only DDs, the maintainer, and the reporter -- if his initial report was signed. That's unreasonable from my point of view and does not buy any security: The header is not signed. I could just take any signed mail and use that to close anything. (And yes, I have closed some bug reports where I try to help out.) >>An other thing is that taking options away from people for no good >>reason isn't usually playing well with the users. > Careful. There *is* a good reason. Maybe it isn't good enough, but it is there. No. At best, you have can argue that there is a harm, significance is utterly questionable. You aren't even close to having a prima facie reasonable argument in favor of your solution. >>At least the current type of spam problem could be easily averted >>by closing bugs via requiering "Closes: " pseudoheader. > That would be another possibility. No problem with me -- until > some class of attackers start attacking the BTS systematically. Your proposal doesn't solve this. Cheers T. -- Thomas Viehmann, <http://beamnet.de/tv/>
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