[Architecture] Enabling better collaboration by allowing users to see each other...

[Tony Atkins]

Hi, Steves... :)

I work on Thursday and Friday, so everyone got a bit longer grace period.
 I just opened up the "browse users" permission, which should fix the
original concern Till reported.

I did also hide our email address as originally proposed, but wanted to
point out the full range of options:

   1. Email addresses can be visible to everyone (including bots).
   2. Obfuscated addresses (tony at raisingthefloor dot org) can visible to
   everyone (including bots).
   3. Email addresses can be visible to people who are logged in.
   4. Email addresses can be completely withheld from everyone.

As discussed last week, I have configured our JIRA instance for the fourth
option.  People can share issues with each other by using "at mentions" in
comments, or by using the "share" function on the top right side of the
issue view, but will not see each other's email addresses.

I can see moving to option 3 if we feel that not having addresses is
stifling communication at all.  The other two seem more like a privacy
violation to me.

In any case, we can change at any time, I say we live with it for a week or
two and comment here if there are concerns or problems.

Cheers,


Tony


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Steve Lee <steve at opendirective.com> wrote:

> I also offer a late +1 and wonder if you made the change?
>
>
> Steve Lee
> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
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>
> On 14 July 2014 15:06, Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> This sounds great.  Did you make the change? ( I’m a dev so I’m not sure
>> I would have noticed it not happening ).
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Tony Atkins <tony at raisingthefloor.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, All:
>>
>> Till pointed out recently that it's very difficult to involve people in
>> issues using shares and mentions, because of the way our JIRA instance is
>> configured:
>>
>> http://issues.gpii.net/browse/GPII-869
>>
>> Right now, we only allow our developers to see the list of users on our
>> JIRA instance, which means that only developers can easily share tickets
>> using the built in share and "at mention" mechanisms.
>>
>> I would propose opening this up so that people can more easily involve
>> other members of the community who we have not set up as developers in our
>> instance.  This seems much more in keeping with our overall philosophy of
>> inclusion.
>>
>> The only small concern is that the "browse user" permission allows users
>> to see each other's email address.  If this is a concern at all, I would
>> propose configuring JIRA to not show email addresses.  It will still be
>> possible to share content with other users through mentions and shares.
>>
>> The model is similar to LinkedIn, where you only know the user's LinkedIn
>> credentials and they can choose whether to share anything further with you.
>>
>> I am putting this out for discussion today.  If there are no objections
>> by close of business tomorrow, I will go ahead and allow all JIRA users to
>> see other users and hide user email addresses in JIRA.  Each change is
>> easily reversible if there are any concerns or we choose to do things
>> differently.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Tony
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