Permissions

[Frédéric Cilia]

Why users need permission "View Watchers & Voters" instead of "Browse Projects" to see threaded comments ?

[Renjith Pillai]

Permissions.VIEW_VOTERS_AND_WATCHERS is used for the Vote functionality of the add-on. Not for the threaded comments feature itself.

[DI2E Licensing]

The code in HandleComments.java seems to break when users don't have that permission:

    public Response commentData(@QueryParam("issueid") final Long issueid)
    {
        ...
        if (null != issueObject && permissionManager.hasPermission(Permissions.VIEW_VOTERS_AND_WATCHERS, issueObject, loggedInUser)) {

Our commenters do not all have Permissions.VIEW_VOTERS_AND_WATCHERS, so their view shows the comments as linear rather than threaded. Can I safely change this to check for Permissions.BROWSE?