Re: GCC Bugzilla accounts

[David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:53:24AM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
>>If we solicited new volunteers from the GCC community to review GCC
>>Bugzilla account requests, can we easily and conveniently provide those
>>volunteers with privileges to create / approve GCC Bugzilla accounts?
>>This could be an opportunity to grow the GNU Toolchain developer
>>community with important but non-programming tasks.
>
> Frédéric Buclin created a program called "bugzilla-createuser" that
> is used on sourceware when a new account is created that needs
> bugzilla access.  We could add a "create-bugzilla-account" command
> to the limited shell that source-control-only users get so that
> anyone with access to gcc's svn could create a bugzilla account.
>
> So, you'd do something like:
>
> ssh gcc.gnu.org create-bugzilla-user user password

I could ask for a volunteer to review GCC Bugzilla account requests on
the GCC Mailing List.  That seems like a reasonable start if a user
can be authorized with restricted privileges to create GCC BZ
accounts.

Thanks, David