[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Trac issues policy

[Lou Logan]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:34:18 +0200
Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> how do you prefer to manage issues? Is acceptable to let the reporter
> close the bug (assuming she will reply in a reasonable amount of
> time), or Carl/the committer should do it?

I'm used to bug trackers that allow the reporter, and any other
registered user, to close a bug. Seems to work fine. I can't think of a
good reason to limit this functionality. Bugs can always be re-opened
if they are mistakenly closed.

> (I'm not even sure trac provides a notification mechanism, right now
> I'm used to poll it and see if people replied to my own messages, but
> this is not going to scale well).

AFAIK: View Ticket > Modify Ticket > "Add to Cc:" checkbox