310259 - submitter / reporter cannot change status from UNCONFIRMED to NEW

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218771

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Description

[Tom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050715 Firefox/1.0.6 SUSE/1.0.6-4.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050715 Firefox/1.0.6 SUSE/1.0.6-4.3

the bug I reported has been confirmed by other users and assigned to someone.
However, the status is still UNCONFIRMED. When trying to change this, I received
the following error message:

"You tried to change the Status field from UNCONFIRMED to NEW, but only the
owner or submitter of the bug, or a sufficiently empowered user, may change that
field"

I am the "Reporter" (see url). I guess "Reporter" and "submitter" are a synonym
(in which case it is a bug to use two terms to cause confusion).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. check radio box to confirm bug
2. commit


Actual Results:  
"You tried to change the Status field from UNCONFIRMED to NEW, but only the
owner or submitter of the bug, or a sufficiently empowered user, may change that
field"


Expected Results:  
status changed to NEW (as I really _am_ the reporter)

Additionally, after a few trials, the status change radio button list changed.
Now I don't see "confirm bug" anymore.
When selecting: "Reassign bug to owner and QA contact of selected component",
the same message appears. (another confusing term is: "owner". I guess it's the
assignee, but then again, why would I need to reassign a bug to the assignee...)

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I believe this is either a dup, or just a problem with the error message. bmo is
running pretty old code, at this point, so I think we've fixed this... haven't we?

Comment 2

[Tom]

(In reply to comment #1)

do you mean to say that the behaviour is correct? The reporter should not be
able to set the status from unconfirmed to new?

Ok, after more STFW, I conclude:
Bugzilla seems not to specify permissions (who can change what). It seems to be
a matter of configuring the actual Bugzilla server.
This fact should be documented in the Bugzilla documentation, for it is not
clear even after some use (I'm not even sure whether or not my conclusion is
valud). Therefore, I filed a bugreport to Bugzilla about it (Bug #310400)

Here (on bugzilla.mozilla.org), the permission policies should be:

1)
Specified (and explained) somewhere (see bug #179944)

2)
Error messages should conform to this specification (this bug, I made it depend
on bug #179944.)

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #2)
> do you mean to say that the behaviour is correct? The reporter should not be
> able to set the status from unconfirmed to new?

Correct! You need special privs to confirm a bug, even if you reported the bug
(else everybody could open a bug and confirm it even if the bug is invalid).


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218771 ***