Request Bugzilla access to edit bugs

[Jim DeLaHunt]

On 2025-10-14 15:58, John Ralls wrote:

>> On Oct 14, 2025, at 2:59 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:
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>> Hello, developers:
>>
>> I would appreciate it if user <from+gnucash at jdlh.com> could be given enough access permissions on <https://bugs.gnucash.org/> to be able to edit bug reports. Specifically, I would like to be able to change which component a bug is labelled with, and mark that one bug is dependent on another bug. From reading the docs[1] that might mean granting me "editbugs" permission. But maybe the permissions list on this Bugzilla instance is different from the docs.
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>> This arises specifically out of a gnucash-users discussion[2] about a request for enhancement about reports[3] which is labelled with "Component: General". I am inclined to fix such details if I am given access to.
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>> For now, I will post comments in the bugs describing the changes I would like to see.
> Jim,
>
> Sorry, no. The edit_bugs privilege offers too many opportunities for abuse for us to allow non core team members to have it. Unfortunately BZ offers no way to create a per-field privilege.
>
> Referring to bugs in comments is actually the best way to connect them in BZ: The See Also field is easily (and often) ignored and provides no way of explaining how it might be relevant. The developers don’t use Depends on or Blocks for managing bugs so there’s not much point in setting them. (The idea behind them is that if bug F depends on A and C then A and C block F: You must resolve A and C before you can resolve F. As far as I know there’s nothing in BZ that actually enforces it.)
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls

OK, understood. I'll stop asking for changes to See Also, Depends on, or 
Block entries.

Could someone with the appropriate access please consider the requests I 
made to change Component: from General to Reports, and Importance from 
Ordinary to Enhancement, for the reports-related enhancement requests I 
just commented in?

Best regards,
      —Jim DeLaHunt