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The Skara bot does not have admin privilege, and I don't think we
want to grant that. But it wouldn't help anyway, since even a JDK
project admin can't "start progress" on a bug not assigned to them
(at least not through the UI).<br>
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I think we should relax this particular limitation of the start
progress transition as well as the ability to edit the
"understanding" field before implementing this feature. The
workaround of having Skara assign the bug to itself, start progress,
and assign it back, seems inelegant, and a bit fragile. And for bugs
already in the "In progress" state, the "understanding" needs to be
updated.<br>
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-- Kevin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/10/2022 11:31 AM, Guoxiong Li
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Joe,
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<div>Thanks for the work. It is very convenient to edit the
`understanding` field directly.</div>
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<div>But I find it is unable to click the `Start Work` button if
someone is not the assignee of the issue.</div>
<div>So when solving SKARA-803 [1], I find we need to assign the
issue to the bot, then "click"</div>
<div>the `Start Work` button to transfer the status to `In
Progress`, </div>
<div>and at last assign the issue back to the actual developer.</div>
<div>This situation is similar to the previous `understanding`
field.</div>
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<div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
The three steps (self-assign, Start work, assign back)
solution is a workaround </div>
<div>but it seems to be not very elegant.</div>
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<div>So I want to ask: can this be improved?</div>
<div>Or can the bot accounts or other administrators' accounts </div>
<div>click the `Start Work` button directly without as an
assignee?</div>
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<div>[1] <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/SKARA-803" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/SKARA-803</a></div>
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<div>Best Regards,</div>
<div>-- Guoxiong</div>
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