Re: Using Bugzilla Groups to Limit User Group to Group Bugs - Mozilla

> >To clarify things the effects that we desire are:
> >1) A staff member enters a bug for Product A or Product B ->
> >Only staff members can access this bug.
>
> Staff checks the GropuA(GroupB) box only.

Which means that only GroupA members can access this bug which is fine
since all Staff members are members of GroupA, but no clients are
members of GroupA.

> >2) A client 1 user enters a bug for Product A -> Only staff
> >members and client 1 users can access this bug.
>
> client 1 checks the Client1 and GroupA boxes.
Which means that only members of both Client1 and GroupA can access
this bug which is not OK because that would mean that other Client1
users cannot access this bug because no client users are a part of
GroupA because otherwise they could see bugs entered by the staff per
the above comments.

I suppose if I were OK with manually checking things, then I could get
away with making three groups: Staff, Client1, and Client2 where Staff
members must manually check the Staff box for bugs that they enter,
Client 1 users must manually check the Check1 box for bugs that they
enter and Client 2 users must manually check the Client2 box for bugs
that they enter. Then, Staff members would belong to all three groups
while clients would only belong to their corresponding groups. But the
problem with this is that with manual checking things are not secure
as the isolation of bugs from various parties can break through user
error.

-John