Hi,
This has probably been asked before, but why are there bugs in bugzilla that I cannot access? What could be secret about a bug report?
Bye, Leonard.
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
This has probably been asked before, but why are there bugs in bugzilla that I cannot access? What could be secret about a bug report?
Examples:
It could be about a project/product that is not public.
It could contain private security-related information.
It could contain information that was received under an NDA agreement with a partner.
Hope this helps, -- Elliot Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Leonard den Ottolander writes:
This has probably been asked before, but why are there bugs in bugzilla that I cannot access? What could be secret about a bug report?
Before the recent policy change for RHL there was a closed beta group which had a little information which were not yet publicly available. Since bug reports could contain references to such information, they were not publicly available. That distinction is not very relevant any more, but the bugs filed before the policy change probably still have this bit set.
There were also, and maybe still are, even more restricted entries only available to Red Hat people. Maybe only some of them, I don't know. And I don't know exactly what kind of secrets could be referred to, but there are probably still SOME things Red Hat keeps secret. Business deals for example.
Typically, it is not the bug in itself which is secret. But the comments about it might refer to other information, which is/was.
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