On 21 October 2016 at 14:25, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
