Bug 111798

Summary: Warning about the user not having edit rights on Bugzilla is confusing new contributors
Product: WebKit Reporter: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa>
Component: Tools / TestsAssignee: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: abarth, alancutter, benjamin, dpranke, eric
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Don't encourage new contributors to ask for EditBugs privileges none

Ryosuke Niwa
Reported 2013-03-07 17:21:44 PST
Apparently the warning that comes out of failing to assign a bug to the user is more confusing than is helpful. A contributor who hasn't yet to become a committer doesn't really know much about how WebKit Bugzilla works and a scary warning like this one misleads the contributor to think that he needs to ask for edit rights. We should just get rid of this warning message. I've met at least 3 new contributors who have complained about this problem.
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Don't encourage new contributors to ask for EditBugs privileges (1.57 KB, patch)
2013-03-07 17:29 PST, Ryosuke Niwa 		no flags
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Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 1 2013-03-07 17:29:49 PST
Created attachment 192116 [details] Don't encourage new contributors to ask for EditBugs privileges
Dirk Pranke
Comment 2 2013-03-07 17:49:58 PST
when does this message show up? with webkit-patch upload? Can we query bugzilla and figure out if the user has editbugs permissions?
Benjamin Poulain
Comment 3 2013-03-07 18:06:31 PST
(In reply to comment #2) > when does this message show up? with webkit-patch upload? > > Can we query bugzilla and figure out if the user has editbugs permissions? New users are incredibly confused by that message.
Dirk Pranke
Comment 4 2013-03-07 18:10:13 PST
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > when does this message show up? with webkit-patch upload? > > > > Can we query bugzilla and figure out if the user has editbugs permissions? > > New users are incredibly confused by that message. new users of what?
Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 5 2013-03-07 18:10:28 PST
(In reply to comment #2) > Can we query bugzilla and figure out if the user has editbugs permissions? We could parse their permissions page, yes. I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
Benjamin Poulain
Comment 6 2013-03-07 19:29:12 PST
> > New users are incredibly confused by that message. > > new users of what? Of webkit-patch. People who get started on WebKit always ask on IRC about that error.
Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 7 2013-03-08 12:44:49 PST
Honestly, I don't really care. :) We could do something more elegant. I guess I don't notice folks asking for EditBugs. I definitely notice folks who fail to ever ask for it. :) Another solution would be to just get rid of edit bugs.
Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 8 2013-03-08 14:38:43 PST
Comment on attachment 192116 [details] Don't encourage new contributors to ask for EditBugs privileges Clearing flags on attachment: 192116 Committed r145270: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/145270>
Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 9 2013-03-08 14:38:47 PST
All reviewed patches have been landed. Closing bug.
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