Who can close BZs?

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 12/06/2013 03:34 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 15:28 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>
>> All of the above is fine.  However, your are exhibiting profound
>> arrogance in stepping in for real fedora managers/developers.  Do your
>> RFEs and your own bzs, but, leave other peoples bz reports alone.
>
> You are assuming a policy that does not exist. I don't believe there is
> any rule or policy which Chris' closure of your bug violated.
>
> As someone said upthread, Fedora is intentionally not hedged around with
> *too* many hard and fast rules. There are various statuses in FAS which
> translate into 'editbugs' privileges - which allow you to close others'
> bugs - and it's generally not considered a problem for people with
> editbugs privileges to do something like this.
>
> If Chris' change had actually been completely wrong, that might have
> been a problem, and the appropriate thing to do would be to reverse it,
> and then keep an eye out to make sure he wasn't repeatedly doing silly
> things, or just trolling, or something. At the point where someone
> exhibits a pattern of bad behaviour, then is the time when we get
> together as a group and say 'hmm, maybe something should be done about
> this'. But no, there is no rule that says 'Chris can't close a bug Clyde
> filed against anaconda'.
>

It is ungentlemanly and discourteous.  What is wrong with a 
person-to-person discourse first.  There are no rules for that either, 
just well-accepted social norms.

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OldFart