Only drivers can target bugs to series

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I think you mean targetting to a series, not adding a bug task. Adding a bug task is having a bug affect multiple packages (e.g. rhythmbox and gstreamer), not adding a Trusty target to a rhythmbox bug.

That's right. Sorry, I gave Christian bad terminology. I always thought
it was called "Adding a Trusty task to the bug" or whatever. So yes, I
think we do mean adding targetting to a series.

"Adding a trusty task to the bug" is correct; each row in the table is a task. But this issue is specifically about series targeting.

A project or distribution's driver can target bugs to series, and additionally a package's uploaders can too. This limitation is worked around in the Ubuntu case with the https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release-nominators team, which is a member of ~ubuntu-drivers.

HI WIlliam,
sorry for bad terminology - but yes it is about targeting bugs to series when triaging.
E.g. when you find that an issue was fixed in one, but still is open in another release.
Thanks for your help to clarifying this - linking the ubuntu-release-nominators certainly helped to understand.

Currently by the ubuntu-server team membership allows us to "Nominate for series" on bugs that we are allowed to triage.
When nominating for a series I there see the comment "Bug nominations are evaluated by release managers and accepted or declined for fixing in a series. The Ubuntu release manager is Ubuntu Drivers."
Ok, here things now make sense and match to what you explained.

So to confirm this understanding and its implications:
- getting membership in "Ubuntu Drivers" Team would allow to target bugs to series (and not only nominate them as we currently can)?
- is there any other privilege associated with "Ubuntu Drivers" that would blur the lines regarding requesting access in that group for bug targeting?
- is the scope of Ubuntu Drivers permission to target bugs global to all packages (or only to all you are allowed to triage)?
- if so, could there be a "Ubuntu Server Drivers" to allow targeting bugs for only a subset of packages?

FYI - I updated the initial bug description with our clarifications to reduce confusion of the next one reading that bug from the start.

I looked around and there is also https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release-nominators
Just to be sure, that group has no other special permission other than those inherited by being a member of https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-drivers right?

On 01/04/16 16:32, ChristianEhrhardt wrote:
> HI WIlliam,
> sorry for bad terminology - but yes it is about targeting bugs to series when triaging.
> E.g. when you find that an issue was fixed in one, but still is open in another release.
> Thanks for your help to clarifying this - linking the ubuntu-release-nominators certainly helped to understand.
>
> Currently by the ubuntu-server team membership allows us to "Nominate for series" on bugs that we are allowed to triage.
> When nominating for a series I there see the comment "Bug nominations are evaluated by release managers and accepted or declined for fixing in a series. The Ubuntu release manager is Ubuntu Drivers."
> Ok, here things now make sense and match to what you explained.
>
> So to confirm this understanding and its implications:
> - getting membership in "Ubuntu Drivers" Team would allow to target bugs to series (and not only nominate them as we currently can)?

Yes. Bug supervisors can nominate, drivers can approve nominations and
directly target.

> - is there any other privilege associated with "Ubuntu Drivers" that would blur the lines regarding requesting access in that group for bug targeting?

The driver role confers a few other privileges; that's why it would be
good to split out series targeting. But they are mostly benign from a
security standpoint, which is how ~ubuntu-drivers is able to be so large.

> - is the scope of Ubuntu Drivers permission to target bugs global to all packages (or only to all you are allowed to triage)?

~ubuntu-drivers can target bugs in any Ubuntu package, just as you can
triage a bug in any package via your membership in ~ubuntu-bugcontrol
(via ~canonical-server).

> - if so, could there be a "Ubuntu Server Drivers" to allow targeting bugs for only a subset of packages?

Uploaders have targeting privileges for their packages, but it's not
currently possible for non-uploaders to gain package-specific permissions.

> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Only drivers can target bugs to series
> + Only ubuntu-drivers Team can target bugs to series

This is not the case. The driver of the relevant project or distribution
can target bugs to series; that is the ubuntu-drivers team only in the
case of the Ubuntu distribution.