Closed Bug 16237 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Store author of comment as user id

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement, P2)

enhancement

Tracking

()

CLOSED FIXED
Bugzilla old

People

(Reporter: BenB, Assigned: terry)

Details

Currently, bugzilla not even holds (real) names.

This got into a problem, when I recently changed my email address. Fortunately,
dmose was so kind to do this for me, but obviuosly, this system doesn't scale
well. The alternative would have been to create a new accout, which would leave
defunct "reporter"s and generate a lot of bug spam.

In my case, it's relatively easy to draw a line between ben.bucksch@uumail.de
and mozilla@bucksch.org, but it is not always so easy.

Sometimes, it's useful to directly address a certain person and
py8ieh=bugzilla@bath.ac.uk doesn't sound nice.
Oh, I forgot: the author of comment seems to be stored as plain text email
address (not as user id). This leaves my old address everywhere. Of course, it's
the same problem with usenet, but I think, it's avoidable here.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: P3 → P2
> Currently, bugzilla not even holds (real) names

Am I completely stupid? There's a field on
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/changepassword.cgi>, which indeed holds my real
name.

Other issues remain, so I leave this bug open. Filed bug #24804 about the usage
of realnames.
"Changing email" now covered by bug #23067.
Changing Summary.
Summary: Enhanced user management → Store author of comment seems as user id
Summary: Store author of comment seems as user id → Store author of comment as user id
This has been fixed.  All the comments are now individual records in the
database, and only the userid is stored, and when you view a bug, the email
address is determined and inserted on the fly.

Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Cool!
Status: RESOLVED → CLOSED
Moving to Bugzilla product
Component: Bugzilla → Bugzilla-General
Product: Webtools → Bugzilla
QA Contact: matty
Target Milestone: --- → Bugzilla old
Version: other → unspecified
QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
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