Hi,
I created an account in bugzilla hoping I'd be able to specify an obfuscated email to be displayed in bugzilla pages (it's been a while since I used bugzilla and there was a bug in bugzilla.mozilla.org about obfuscating email addresses long ago). Since that's not the case :-(, I'm forced to get another email address for bugzilla. Now it looks like I cannot change my email address in mediazilla, though other bugzillas allow this. Is there a way to change my email address in mediazilla or do I have to spam mediazilla with another account (aka "sock puppet")?
Also it'd be nice if we could use our usernames in a wikimedia project instead of email addresses to log into bugzilla. MediaWiki allows (depending on a pref) mail to be sent to us through the 'Mail this user' link, so confirming that someone is not "gratuitously subscribing someone else" should be possible. Or we could continue with our (simpler) "separate logins for each project" approach and have mediazilla accept an arbitrary username and an optional email address specification.
Also in the true wiki way of allowing anonymous contributions, there should be some way for someone who wants to report just one bug he/she happened to notice but doesn't want to continue with wikimedia projects, to report a bug without the overhead of creating an account.
~~~, er... I mean [[Wikipedia:en:User:Paddu|]]
Padmanabhan V. Karthic wrote: <snip>
Also in the true wiki way of allowing anonymous contributions, there should be some way for someone who wants to report just one bug he/she happened to notice but doesn't want to continue with wikimedia projects, to report a bug without the overhead of creating an account.
Hello,
We want to be able to contact the bug reporter to get more informations such as browser version / mediawiki configuration file ...
Sourceforge bug tracker was full of bugs for which we could not contact the reporter :(
On Saturday 30 October 2004 12:38, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Sourceforge bug tracker was full of bugs for which we could not contact the reporter :(
Is there any way to post bugs via the mailing list?
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:50:56 +0300, NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
On Saturday 30 October 2004 12:38, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Sourceforge bug tracker was full of bugs for which we could not contact the reporter :(
Is there any way to post bugs via the mailing list?
1) you can post anything you like to the mailing list, but people may be rather annoyed at you for not using the Bugzilla interface, where it can be labelled, searched, etc; I know of no mechanism for creating or amending a bugzilla report just by e-mail. [Although I gather older bug trackers, such as Debian's, use e-mail as their main interface, not the web]
2) the mailing lists are all publically archived, with not-very-obfuscated e-mail adresses (I don't think replacing "at" with "@" is going to deter many harvesters). I was going to say you need to sign up before you can send, too, but I seem to remember e-mails from unsubscribed addresses are put in a "moderation" queue, rather than outright deleted, so I guess that much is easier.
Other than suggesting people create a throw-away e-mail account for bug discussion (as long as they are actually going to check it, so they'll receive requests for clarification etc), I guess we can only hope that someone will implement obfuscation/hiding of e-mail addresses within bugzilla. [Or, of course, one of us can do it; but having glanced at the source code, I'm not volunteering! ;)] After all, only the software needs to know the address; as long as people don't turn off all mailing, there should be no need for other humans to know their address at all...
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