Ticket #1516 defect closed worksforme

Opened 7 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

trac lets people assign and cc bugs to nonexistent users

Reported by: jknight Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: website Keywords:
Cc: tekNico Branch:
Author: Launchpad Bug:

Description

This is a problem because people might they think they've assigned or cc'd a bug to somebody, but effective just sent it to /dev/null.

Change History

1

Changed 7 years ago by jknight

  • owner changed from exarkun to tjs

Reassigning to tjs as new website maintainer.

2

Changed 7 years ago by tekNico

  • cc tekNico added
  • owner changed from tjs to tekNico
  • type changed from enhancement to defect

This'll have to be forwarded to Trac developers, I'll check whether they're already working on it.

3

Changed 7 years ago by tekNico

  • status changed from new to assigned

4

Changed 7 years ago by tekNico

Assignment is now done with a selection among existing accounts. The problem remains for the Cc: field.

5

Changed 5 years ago by exarkun

  • status changed from assigned to closed
  • resolution set to worksforme

There's no way to actually know what values are valid for the cc field. Any email address is allowed (and we're not going to start doing VRFYs). Plus, even a valid username might not be associated with a valid email address. Restricting the input to valid usernames or strings with '@' in them might be a slight improvement, but there's still lots of opportunity for messages to be lost, so I don't feel like it's worth the effort required.

A good resolution for this would be "fixed"/"wontfix". I'll compromise by making it "worksforme".

6

Changed 2 years ago by <automation>

  • owner tekNico deleted
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