How much personal information is necessary to close a bug?

[Christopher Brown]

On 30/01/2008, Lex Hider <floss at lex.hider.name> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wanting to do some bug triage for fedora.
> I checked out the list of NEW bugs for one of my favourite apps: amarok.
> There seemed a pretty obvious bug that could now be closed:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248625
>
> I tried to close it and found I didn't have the privileges to do so.
> I asked on #fedora-devel and was pointed to the triage team wiki page
> and that I need a Fedora Account.
>
> Apparently to open a Fedora account I need to give my postal address and
> telephone number. Why is it necessary to give this personal information
> just to close a bug?
>
> Contrast to other projects I have contributed to where some realizes you
> know what you are doing or get sick of you pestering to close bugs on
> your behalf and give you the relevant privileges.
>
> Here's an example of my bug closing credentials:
> Look at Bug Killers:
> http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2006-04-30/

Hello Lex,

Great that you're wanting to do some triage work and yeah, that bug is
the kind of stuff that we don't need hanging around any longer. :)

As for the information side of things, FAS is used for a number of
things, including the ability to create packages in Fedora and there
has to, at some point, be some accountability for how this happens.
With bugzilla triage privs you get the ability to modify to great
extent the bugs in Red Hat's main bug tracking system so I think its
understandable for this to be asked. Someone with legal knowledge
might want to add to this though.

Best place to hang out for triaging is #fedora-qa on IRC and the two
bods leading the charge are John Poelstra and Jon Stanley.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnPoelstra
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonStanley

We have a meeting today at 1700 UTC in #fedora-meeting - would be good
to have you there as well.

Cheers

-- 
Christopher Brown

http://www.chruz.com