Lack of release targeting in Malone (was Re: Bugging questions)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:58:40AM -0400, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
> I see another possibility:
> 
> * Allow a configuration option to define a release management team. Then
> two options (more thought needed on the wording, just putting forth the
> idea):
> 
>   (*) Allow only members of the release management team to target bugs
>   ( ) Allow any logged-in user to target a bug, subject to approval from
> the release management team
> 
> Without making this configurable, I think it will be extremely difficult
> for Malone to scale from small, release early, release often,
> anyone-can-have-a-commit-bit projects all the way to large projects,
> which rely on heavyweight processes and workflows to coordinate hundreds
> of contributors or more.

That seems excessively complex to me; it's already getting rather unclear
who can do what in Launchpad based on the roles attached to the distribution
(which are usually unclear in the contexts where they take effect).

Driver? Registrant? Members?

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 - mdz