Bugzilla email address obfuscation with git patches

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Sat Mar 20 19:25:01 GMT 2010


On Saturday 20 March 2010 10:30:22 am Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Parker Coates at 20/03/10 13:23 did gyre and gimble:
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:10, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >> On 20.03.10 12:28:13, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>> A Dissabte, 20 de març de 2010, Colin Guthrie va escriure:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Now that git patches will be popping up on bugzilla, it would be
> >>>> pollite to obfuscate the addresses.
> >>>> 
> >>>> See e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231254#c2
> >>>> 
> >>>> While that email address for me is on enough places as to make it
> >>>> easily scrape-able, it's not necessarily true for all contributors.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Could email addresses be obsfucated in either:
> >>>>  a) The BUG/CCBUG stuff that injects the commit into a ticket comment.
> >>>> 
> >>>> or
> >>>> 
> >>>>  b) Generally in Bugzilla.
> >>> 
> >>> What reason is for that given we have all our mail addresses in the
> >>> accounts file in kde-common?
> 
> Regular contributors perhaps, but for ad-hoc patches from random people
> that a git-based workflow encourages, this does not always hold true.
> 
> >> Apart from the fact that the comment for the commit also has the email
> >> (in a <a>) in bugzilla. Its always been like that.
> > 
> > Bugzilla only shows the commenter email address to users who are
> > logged in. If you log out, you'll see that the <a>s are gone.
> 
> Yeah exactly, the commenter addresses are only available when logged in,
> but git commits copied to comments will always have the email address
> linked and in clear text regardless of logged in status.
> 
> Col

patches to bugzilla that obfuscate email addresses in comments are welcome. 
Otherwise, file a wish in b.k.o against the bugs.kde.org product. This *may* 
be fixed in a later bugzilla release, but I don't know that yet.
-- 
Matt




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