On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:44 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 October 2016 at 14:25, Florian Weimer <fweimer@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
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