Jeff Fearn replied to my email, but he only copied the internal bugzilla-list, because he wanted to include security details and didn't feel comfortable doing that on a public list. I've selected the most important parts of his replies and deleted the rest. Please see his responses below:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 1:37 PM Jeff Fearn <jfearn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9/2/2022 20:33, Kamil Paral wrote:[snip]
> initially I (and not just me) read the email as "update to the latest
> python-bugzilla and you'll be fine". But after I played with
> bugzilla.stage, and read the announcement more carefully, it seems that the
> only possible authentication method is now using the bugzilla api key, i.e.
> using the username + password login is no longer possible (for API access).
> Is that correct?
Yes this is correct.
> I do have several concerns regarding that. The change seems too sudden and
> a lot of Fedora tooling interacts with bugzilla.
This has been discussed for some time on the internal bugzilla-list.
> So, basically two questions:
> 1. Why are we given so little time to react? Can this change wait at least
> until F36 is released (around the end of April), so that the Anaconda and
> ABRT teams (as well as others) can incorporate the changes
The time line was based on the feedback we got on bugzilla-list.
Technically it's a pretty easy change and no one raised these kinds of
issues.
People with blockers should send a mail to bugzilla-list, or open a
ticket, with all the gory details, and we can mash it out.
The list is better IMO because there are people from other teams who can
contribute to the discussion.
> 2. Is there a good enough justification for completely banning
> username+password authentication? Because this will have a strong impact on
> Fedora quality by reducing the amount of crash reports which we receive, I
> can't imagine it any other way.
This change is driven by security of credentials
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