Comment 1 for bug 688956

Hi, thanks for raising this. I wonder if we have enough docs on help.launchpad.net about access controls in the bug tracker. I suspect we don't - perhaps you could file a separate bug about that?

Anyhow, we certainly don't permit full access to all fields. We have hard coded role based security which limits what fields can be changed, and to what value.

For instance, 'assigned to' - unprivilieged users can only assign bugs to:
 - themselves
 - teams they are in (and this one is under discussion at the moment)

We have two goals around this; the first is that its important to us that Launchpad not become balkanized with every project having a very different feel for its bug database : we believe that there are sufficiently common needs across projects that our default behaviours should work well. (And we're improving our defaults over time).

Secondly, we do want to meet each projects needs, without compromising the understandability of Launchpad. So an ACL matrix is something we would hesitate to implement - it would be very hard to understand and remember for many people. Thats not to say we can't and won't do it - just that this would be a last recourse, and we don't think we're there yet.