user roles?

[Greg Hendricks]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 09:27, Luis Villa wrote:
> Hey-
> Has anyone given thought to the notion of user roles in bugzilla? It
> strikes me that often in gnome, we want different default
> behaviors/queries/appearances depending on whether or not someone is a
> developer, bug filer, full-time QA person, manager, etc.; and while we
> wouldn't want to sacrifice the full-blown power of the query or bug
> interfaces, hiding them deeply (or having sane defaults) for
> developers, non-developers, etc. would make a lot of sense. Anyone?
> Bueller?
>
> Luis
>

I think that is a wonderful idea. 

We have a lot of users who are managers, for instance, who use reporting 
almost exclusively. Then there are the help desk people who do a majority of 
entering the bugs. Then the developers who work on the bugs. And then there 
are the testers that verify the bugs. 
We are already working up a custom interface for customers to enter bugs.

Having custom interfaces for these roles would be useful IMHO.

Greg Hendricks