On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:44 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 October 2016 at 14:25, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Why does Bugzilla allow filing private Fedora bugs? > > > > Because people believe they are posting private information from their > systems which they do not want to have broad dissemination. There are > many times where Fedora bugs were part of Red Hat customer information > which they wanted to keep private to the best possible. > > I believe that previous conversations of getting it removed ended up > like the Debian private debates.. you can't get enough people to agree > to not wanting it or to go through the private ones to see if they can > be public. > > > > I'm not sure who has the capability (it may be tied to specific > accounts). > > It is not all that helpful because accounts on the Cc: list still receive > > notifications and can access the bug. Recipients of the notifications > may > > include public mailing lists. This is probably not what people make bugs > > private expect. > > We don't run the Bugzilla so the capability of who has it and who does > not is not set by us. > > Personally, I see this as a problem (a minor one, perhaps, but still a problem). We should run our own, or use something which we have more control over. > > > > The other problem is that I keep having to ask people filing private > bugs if > > it is okay with them to make them public, and then to open the bugs > again if > > they accidentally turn it private afterwards. > > > > Surely it's best to remove this capability from Bugzilla? > > > > (In case anyone wonders: We do not file Fedora bugs for embargoed > security > > issues at all, so a Bugzilla permissions change would have zero impact on > > that front.) > > > > Thanks, > > Florian > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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