I agree with this. I generally am on the side of freedom and responsibility. Limiting edits to certain fields turns people off. Something I want to very much avoid if we can.
Dinesh > On Dec 10, 2018, at 6:14 PM, Murukesh Mohanan <murukesh.moha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 10:51, Benedict Elliott Smith > <bened...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> On 10 Dec 2018, at 16:21, Ariel Weisberg <ar...@weisberg.ws> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> RE #1, does this mean if you submit a ticket and you are not a contributor >>> you can't modify any of the fields including description or adding/removing >>> attachments? >> >> Attachment operations have their own permissions, like comments. >> Description would be prohibited though. I don’t see this as a major >> problem, really; it is generally much more useful to add comments. If we >> particularly want to make a subset of fields editable there is a workaround, >> though I’m not sure anybody would have the patience to implement it: >> https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/how-can-i-control-the-editing-of-issue-fields-via-workflow-149834.html >> >> <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/how-can-i-control-the-editing-of-issue-fields-via-workflow-149834.html> >> > > That would be disappointing. Descriptions with broken or no formatting > aren't rare (say, command output without code formatting). And every > now and then the description might need to be updated. For example, in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10989, the link to the > paper had rotted, but I managed to find a new one, so I could edit it > in. If such a change had to be posted as a comment, it might easily > get lost in some of the more active issues. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
