Topic: Email address in Bugzilla- new bug report

[calisun]

I have noticed that my email address shows up as my user name when I try to post a new bug. This was never the case before when I posted bugs for V. 6.0.1 or 6.5 and this was never the case on sourceforge.net
I am sorry, but I don't want my email address to be displayed for the whole world to see. I don't mind admins to know it, but not everyone especially spammers.
Untill this is changed and my username is displayed not my email address, I will no loger post any bugs.
I am sure that I am not the only one who feels this way, and I would hate to see SME project loosing many good testers because of this.

[boss_hog]

Hey Yall,
just giving this a ----BUMP----.
I think calisun has a valid point.
A participant should have the option for disclosure.
Joe

[mrjhb3]

Since your e-mail is currently visible, you could have filed a bug report stating what you want there.  But, I did it for you.

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271

JB

[calisun]

boss_hog - thank you for the ----BUMP----

mrjhb3 - thank you for posting on bugzilla.

On Sourceforge, your email address is not visible, people would only see:
  username (at) users.sourceforge.net
So people are able to contact you without knowing your real email addresss.

[gordonr]

I am sure that I am not the only one who feels this way, and I would hate to see SME project loosing many good testers because of this.

Yes, this is a problem, and that would indeed be sad. I am not aware of a way to hide the email addresses in the current version of Bugzilla. We are already seeing dramatically more follow-up to bugs in Bugzilla than we did in Mantis or at SourceForge, so  in my opinion some pain is outweighed by the gain. We simply could not continue to use the SourceForge bug tracker for a project of this complexity.

We could change Bugzilla to require a login, which is a partial solution. However, that means that the current bug list cannot be searched.

Another partial solution is to do as I do - create a valid email alias just for Bugzilla work. The SME Server natively supports "extension addressing", so you can create your Bugzilla account as fredfrog-bugzilla@example.com (assuming you own example.com) and the Bugzilla mail will be delivered there. If the address gets harvested, you can change your Bugzilla email/account to something new and your bugs will follow you.

The best place to raise this is in the Bugzilla Bugzilla. And yes, you are not alone in your concerns:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2004-October/msg00127.html

[gordonr]

On Sourceforge, your email address is not visible, people would only see:
  username (at) users.sourceforge.net
So people are able to contact you without knowing your real email addresss.

Note that the users.sourceforge.net address is also an easy target for spammers.

Another option would be to set your Bugzilla account to calisun@contribs.org and do the forwarding there.

[gordonr]

Since your e-mail is currently visible, you could have filed a bug report stating what you want there.  But, I did it for you.

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271

JB

Thanks John - further follow-up to that bug please.

Note that email addresses already undergo simple address munging which throws off a lot of harvesters. View the page source of a page displayed by Bugzilla.