Re Not Allowed Here

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 16:37 -0400, geoffrey wrote:
> Launchpad has striven on lower and lower in its concerns.   Is this
> Lost?  24?  Desparate Housewives?
> All this concern about who can who cant post a bug...you all got too
> much time on your hands.

There are good reasons for launchpad to have the infrastructure for
private bugs - security bugs, with instructions to exploit them are an
obvious example.  Similarly there's a good reason for apport bugs to
(currently) default to being private - the crash logs contain a chunk of
memory, which could contain all sorts of interesting, private
information like passwords, private keys, bank account numbers, etc.

Until launchpad grows a real crashreport database with appropriate
access restrictions, making the bugs private is an appropriate
work-around.

Chris Halse Rogers