Forum OpenACS Development: Response to Scoping users to a package

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Posted by Jeff Davis on
Easier (and better I think) than "most recently used" is to list
people already assigned to outstanding bugs.  That tends to be a short
enough list and simpler to code.  For our current needs there are
a lot more submitters than assignees so if you get all existing
assignees you are more likely to have the person you want on the
list while an MRU list won't help infrequent users.

I don't see any way around a search based assign (other than to push
it off into the group management pages) and since it has to exist
somewhere; standardizing it is probably a good idea and is
necessary to straighten out quite a few things on the admin side.

I expect for a more general bug-tracker you will need to also maintain
permissions anyway so the "membership" bit in the guise permissioning
is going to have to exist.

On the other hand I hate to see forcing everyone to go through a two
or three step process to assign a user to a bug (add to subsite,
permission or memberify, assign to bug) when for most projects simply
assigning any user to a bug (via the dropdown or a sitewide search if
missing from the dropdown) is good enough and simpler.