Comment 9 for bug 749561

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 749561] Re: please allow targeting a series and set a milestone

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:35:18AM -0000, Mattias Backman wrote:
> > What should the behavior be when setting these attributes fails due to access
> > control? I.e., if someone who's not a core-dev runs this script, they can't
> > target to a series AFAIK; should the script abort at the first error then?
> > should it rollback the freshly opened bug report that it can't set the
> > requested state on (i.e., close the bug)?

> This seems to be a good example of something that the script can recover
> from if you like it to. Would it be more hassle for you to get all the
> bugs filed without the attributes and have to fix that afterwards than
> getting no bugs filed until you sort out what's blocking setting the
> attributes?

I think it's more hassle to have to fix up the bugs afterwards than to get
no bugs filed.

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