Hello, on Montag, 6. Oktober 2008, Stefan Behlert wrote:
Thanks for understanding that even here at SUSE humans are working.
;-)
I agree with you that some warning should be issued to avoid this situation to the one making the duplicate.
The last time I had a chance to check this was in the "good old days" around 10.1 beta, when the old susebeta group (for SL 9.x and older) still existed in bugzilla [1]. At this time, I marked a bug (which was a 9.1 bug, but entered as a 10.0 bug since 9.x was/is non-public) as a duplicate of a 9.1 bug. To make the story short: bugzilla already shows a warning in this case. Screenshot: www.cboltz.de/tmp/bugzilla-duplicate-permission-warning.png [2] Unfortunately the text sounds more like a warning that the duplicate reporter will be able to access the original bug (and even offers an option NOT to CC the duplicate reporter there) instead of sounding like "the original bug is not public, openSUSE betatesters could become angry". While 10.1 development, there was a discussion how this page could be improved: Basically, the idea was to add a loud siren sound (so that everybody in the office is aware what you are doing) and two options: a) make the bug public b) make the bug public ;-) I would happily help to implement this warning page...
I've opened a bug for that, 432788 (I'm not sure if that _is_ public available, as it's against the bugzilla product and I do not know all permissions by heart).
It is non-public (what a surprise ;-) and I would be happy if you can CC
me there (search for "cboltz" in user lookup, I'm using a different
address in bugzilla than in this mailinglist)
Apropos bugzilla user lookup: This is a never-ending story.
It was available for some time, then the bugzilla team decided to close
it so that spammers can't download all mail adresses (but they could
and still can search for all bugs where the assignee address
contains "@" - results in an quite impressive buglist *g*).
I then proposed to limit the lookup result to 10 users which makes it
useless for spammers. Some months (and several REOPEN clicks) later
this was done.
This was part 1, Bugs: 197429, 198516, 198516 (all non-public [3])
This state lasted about half a year, then user lookup was disabled again
for people only in the editbugs group (read: all the openSUSE
community). The new argument is that it is possible to find people
which were not involved in any public bug with user lookup :-/
Bug 374374 (non-public [3])
In the meantime, I'm tired in discussing with the bugzilla team :-(
I'm back to a solution that works quite well: Just search all bugs where
reporter, commenter, assignee, CC list, whatever contain