capabilities of forthcoming group changes

David Miller justdave at syndicomm.com
Mon Jun 30 15:59:05 UTC 2003


On 6/30/2003 10:51 AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:

> I've read that the development version is altering the way groups work
> to be more flexible and to support larger numbers of groups, and so I
> was wondering if the new arrangement might allow an arrangement that
> would:
>
>   - prevent the creation of public bug report for some (perhaps all)
>     products by either all users (or perhaps just users in some
>     groups).

Yes.

>   - prevent some users (or perhaps users in some groups) from being
>     able to alter the group assignments of a bug report.

Yes.

>   - prevent some users from seeing the bugs filed by other users (this
>     is already supported, but see the particular context below).

Yes.  And the context you give is exactly what it was designed for. :)

> In any case, I just wanted to see how what's planned (or already
> implemented) might or might not be able to accommodate the scenario
> above.

It's already implemented in 2.17.3 and up.
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