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Subject: Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.
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Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:31:04PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> 
>>David S. Miller wrote:
>>
>>>What is so difficult about allowing anyone to review and close a bug?
>>
>>Does Buzilla have some "undo everything Jerry Erk did recently"
>>feature ? If not, the incompetent and the practical jokers might
>>become a problem.
> 
> 
> There's a good example extant where this isn't a problem: Wikipedia.
> In their example, vandalism increases, but so does clean-up. Dave's
> idea lets us scale the number of Bugzilla janitors. We won't get
> perfect scaling, but it's much better than not scaling.
> 

Changes to wiki's are version controlled, with links to those versions, 
so it's a simple matter to revert the vandalism... less work than the 
vandalism itself.  Is the same true for bugzilla?

Eli
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