as an option per user, allow users to prevent everyone else from changing the milestones on their bugs [default disabled] this option would appear in bugzilla edit prefs as something like '[x] prevent others from changing the milestone of my bugs' <background> mozilla.org mozilla project feels that target milestone is a field for use by assignee </background> [if people want the option of qa to be able to change milestone or be granted permission to do that, that's fine, comment here] yes, this is not designed to be foolproof, if someone wants to change the milestone, all they need to do is assign it to themselves.

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Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them.

Reassigning all of my "future" targetted bugs to indicate that I'm not presently working on them, and someone else could feel free to work on them. (sorry for the spam if you got this twice, it didn't take right the first time)

In Bugzilla CVS, possibly earlier the reporter cannot change the target milestone (without having editbugs). Assignee & qa contact still can. Also the reporter cannot reassign bugs until a bug has been confirmed. Seems this solves the: > <background> mozilla.org mozilla project feels that target milestone is a field > for use by assignee </background> Worksforme?

There would be no way for managers or other project peers to triage bugs. I don't think this is the decision of the assignee to decide what to do with their bugs.