Last modified: 2014-09-09 00:36:06 UTC
Users are not advised upon creating an account at MediaZilla that their email address will become their username and be visible to anyone on all MediaZilla bug reports voted on or created by that user. At the least, the create a new account page should advise users of the lack of email address privacy. (Personally, I assumed that email would be required to confirm that I was a real live person, and then allow me to create an account, not for becoming my username.)
You might want to report it to the bugzilla developpers as well : http://www.bugzilla.org/developers/reporting_bugs.html
To be reported to bugzilla team.
A little is already done. @ is used instead of @. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261326 Bugzilla spam prevention (tracking anti-spam-spiders/harvesters bugs)
*** Bug 11048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There's a number of third-party patches/tweaks to BZ to suppress display of email addresses unless one's logged in and such. Clearer display of privacy info would also be good!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219021 is marked FIXED upstream: "Email addresses should only be displayed to logged in users" Should make it to a future release... (3.4?)
Bulk-assigning open BZ issues to Fred.
This will get corrected in the upcoming version of Bugzilla, which should make it here very soon. Resolving.
Please note that making email addresses invisible until you register just moves the problem up a tiny bit, spambots can easily register (as they do on various types of forum) and then still harvest email addresses. What would help is either making email addresses invisible permanently (except for admins), or providing the user a choice between showing his email address (only for registered users, of course) or hiding it altogether.
I think this can help: Please see truncated email addresses at http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6500 subject: « make irc://foo.bar clickable links » I think it's not done in http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/config.cgi but one can ask the maintainer: maintainer : 'platform-bugs\x40lists.facebook.com' btw: https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/config.cgi shows install_version : '3.5' http://landfill.bugzilla.org/gangleri/index.cgi shows to maintainers: A new Bugzilla version (3.4.2) is available at http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/3.4.2/. Release date: 2009-09-11 http://landfill.bugzilla.org/gangleri/config.cgi shows version : '3.4.1', Regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]
*** Bug 9872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Marking this fixed with the BZ 3.4 upgrade, bug 16777. E-mail addys aren't shown to unregistered users anymore.
Reopening -- the upstream bug that was fixed doesn't solve the problem that email addresses are used as a primary identifier and are exposed to other users.
*** Bug 29852 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 11898 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Unassigning from fvassard at wikimedia dot org
(In reply to comment #13) > Reopening -- doesn't solve the problem that email addresses are used as > a primary identifier and are exposed to other users. Upstream for that is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218917
Upstream ticket has an initial patch, so there is a small chance to see this in Bugzilla 5.0.
Related: a request for comments to move our bug reporting and more to Phabricator, where users' email addresses are kept private. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator Details about the potential migration from Bugzilla to Phabricator are being discussed at Migrate Bugzilla to Phabricator http://fab.wmflabs.org/T39 + dependent tasks.
With the move to [[w:Phabricator]] approved, this request about visible email addresses in Bugzilla is Lowest priority. We are focusing in Wikimedia Phabricator Day 1.
