[Fwd: Submit Request Failure]

[Martin Pool]

On 1 December 2011 03:30, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Alexander Belchenko пишет:
>
>> Jelmer Vernooij пишет:
>>>
>>> Am 30/11/11 13:13, schrieb Alexander Belchenko:
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what I can do about that.
>>>
>>> It seems like John has just marked it as no longer private, you should be
>>> able to access it now.
>>
>>
>> OK. Maybe. But.
>>
>> 1) Why have I got the bug mail to private bug reports in the first place?
>> Should I file a bug about it?
>
>
> And, BTW. When I'm trying to open the private bug the Launchpad is asking
> me: "Lost something?". It looks like 404 error for me. I'm sure I'm not lost
> anything. It's just rudiculous. Why can it say me that I'm not allowed to
> see something I have not access to?

As a design decision Launchpad doesn't distinguish between objects
that don't exist under that name (which clearly should be 404),
objects that have been deleted and objects you're not allowed to see.

The idea is that being able to confirm is a ~gnu-microsoft-acquisition
team (not really) would be an information leak even if you're not
allowed to see the contents of it.  The drawback is that it's quite
confusing to people and robots.

I think this is not a good tradeoff, at least in the case of bugs
(where the fact a bug <N_MAX exists is no secret), but there it is.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/777797

Comment if you like.

>> 2) Why I can's get access to the private bugs in the project I was(am)
>> working on and I'm still in the team that develops it? What's the purpose of
>> such private bugs?

Also a bug, but one I think may be fixed soon so that project admins
can see everything:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/297756
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/746887

-- 
Martin