Restoring Bugzilla properties [Was: Fwd: Excuse the interruption (question about GCC buganizer account)]

Restoring Bugzilla properties [Was: Fwd: Excuse the interruption (question about GCC buganizer account)]

[James Dennett]

Hello Overseers,

For some while I was inactive in working on the GCC bugs database, and
when recently I found myself with time to contribute again I found
that my (jdennett@acm.org/jdennett@gcc.gnu.org) account had been
deleted, apparently as it had made no commits (but then it wasn't set
up with commit rights in the first place, so far as I know).  Mail to
jdennett@gcc.gnu.org also bounces (which isn't a problem in itself).

I've set up another account (as james.dennett@gmail.com), but no
longer have access to update bug states (confirm, close etc.).  Would
it be possible to restore that access?  To be clear, I need only
Bugzilla access, not commit access.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,

James


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Dennett <james.dennett@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: Excuse the interruption (question about GCC buganizer account)
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>


On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, James Dennett wrote:
>> Fair enough, it's good to know what happened.  I didn't have much time
>> at all for GCC for a couple of years; I have a little more now (my
>> current employer, Google, is more sympathetic).
>
> Nice to hear that.  I just investigated a bit, and what actually had
> happened is that your gcc.gnu.org account had not done a single commit
> which is why I was removed about two years ago.

Ah.  Yes.  It was set up without any commit rights.

>> I appreciate you getting back to me.  I'll work for now with a
>> newly-created account, and if I find that the inability to update bug
>> states is problematic we can revisit it then.  (Speaking of which:
>> should I just mail the gcc@ list for this kind of question?)
>
> Interestingly, in the GCC MAINTAINERS file I just noticed the following:
>
>  James Dennett                                   jdennett@acm.org
>
> You may want to ask overseers@gcc.gnu.org to restore your Bugzilla
> properties (which originally were GNATS properties I believe).

I'll do that.

Thanks again for your time.

-- James

Re: Restoring Bugzilla properties [Was: Fwd: Excuse the interruption (question about GCC buganizer account)]

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 07:44:38PM -0700, James Dennett wrote:
>Hello Overseers,
>
>For some while I was inactive in working on the GCC bugs database, and
>when recently I found myself with time to contribute again I found
>that my (jdennett@acm.org/jdennett@gcc.gnu.org) account had been
>deleted, apparently as it had made no commits (but then it wasn't set
>up with commit rights in the first place, so far as I know).  Mail to
>jdennett@gcc.gnu.org also bounces (which isn't a problem in itself).

I'm don't know how to fix the bugzilla issue but if you had a
gcc.gnu.org address then you were expected to be a committer.  So,
we won't be reinstating that account.

cgf

Re: Restoring Bugzilla properties [Was: Fwd: Excuse the interruption (question about GCC buganizer account)]

[James Dennett]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 07:44:38PM -0700, James Dennett wrote:
>>Hello Overseers,
>>
>>For some while I was inactive in working on the GCC bugs database, and
>>when recently I found myself with time to contribute again I found
>>that my (jdennett@acm.org/jdennett@gcc.gnu.org) account had been
>>deleted, apparently as it had made no commits (but then it wasn't set
>>up with commit rights in the first place, so far as I know).  Mail to
>>jdennett@gcc.gnu.org also bounces (which isn't a problem in itself).
>
> I'm don't know how to fix the bugzilla issue but if you had a
> gcc.gnu.org address then you were expected to be a committer.  So,
> we won't be reinstating that account.

That's OK.  I was told at the time my account was set up that it was
unusual to give this access to non-committers; if unusual has changed
to "it doesn't happen", I don't have a problem with that.  I'm hoping
that I can have access to maintain bugs without needing any other
access.

-- James

Re: Restoring Bugzilla properties [Was: Fwd: Excuse the interruption (question about GCC buganizer account)]

[Daniel Berlin]

Your old bugzilla accounts, including jdennet@gcc.gnu.org, and
jdennett@acm.org, still exist on bugzilla.

If you use the jdennett@gcc.gnu.org account on bugzilla, it has the
right permissions to edit/etc bugs automatically.


On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:35 AM, James Dennett <james.dennett@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Christopher Faylor
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 07:44:38PM -0700, James Dennett wrote:
>>>Hello Overseers,
>>>
>>>For some while I was inactive in working on the GCC bugs database, and
>>>when recently I found myself with time to contribute again I found
>>>that my (jdennett@acm.org/jdennett@gcc.gnu.org) account had been
>>>deleted, apparently as it had made no commits (but then it wasn't set
>>>up with commit rights in the first place, so far as I know).  Mail to
>>>jdennett@gcc.gnu.org also bounces (which isn't a problem in itself).
>>
>> I'm don't know how to fix the bugzilla issue but if you had a
>> gcc.gnu.org address then you were expected to be a committer.  So,
>> we won't be reinstating that account.
>
> That's OK.  I was told at the time my account was set up that it was
> unusual to give this access to non-committers; if unusual has changed
> to "it doesn't happen", I don't have a problem with that.  I'm hoping
> that I can have access to maintain bugs without needing any other
> access.
>
> -- James
>

Re: Restoring Bugzilla properties [Was: Fwd: Excuse the interruption (question about GCC buganizer account)]

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> Your old bugzilla accounts, including jdennet@gcc.gnu.org, and
> jdennett@acm.org, still exist on bugzilla.
> 
> If you use the jdennett@gcc.gnu.org account on bugzilla, it has the
> right permissions to edit/etc bugs automatically.

jdennet@gcc.gnu.org does not exist any more on gcc.gnu.org, so James
can't receive mail with a password reminder.

Gerald