Bugzilla email address obfuscation with git patches

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 20 March 2010, Matt Rogers wrote:
> 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.

Apparently, this feature was introduced with Bugzilla 2.18:
http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/2.18/new-features.html#eam

I haven't checked whether it really obfuscates email addresses in 
comments.


Regards,
Ingo
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