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authormozilla%colinogilvie.co.uk <>2008-01-20 00:24:36 +0100
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Bug 310400: Explain (Document) how permissions are handled on Bugzilla
Patch by Sam Folk-Williams <sam.folkwilliams@gmail.com>; r=me
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@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@
versions, and you upgrade.
</para>
</warning>
-
+
<para>
Companies often have rules about which employees, or classes of employees,
are allowed to change certain things in the bug system. For example,
@@ -697,6 +697,16 @@
designed to make it easy for you to write your own custom rules to define
who is allowed to make what sorts of value transition.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ By default, assignees, QA owners and users
+ with <emphasis>editbugs</emphasis> privileges can edit all fields of bugs,
+ except group restrictions (unless they are members of the groups they
+ are trying to change). Bug reporters also have the ability to edit some
+ fields, but in a more restrictive manner. Other users, without
+ <emphasis>editbugs</emphasis> privileges, can not edit
+ bugs, except to comment and add themselves to the CC list.
+ </para>
<para>
For maximum flexibility, customizing this means editing Bugzilla's Perl