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Bug 409341

Summary:	"New Charts" only viewable by members of editbugs group
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Robin Stocker <robin>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Robin Stocker

2013-05-28 17:05:32 EDT

When trying to view a new chart (very nice feature btw), e.g. this:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/chart.cgi?category=EGit&datefrom=2011-01-01&dateto=&gt=1&label0=EGit%20Core%20Open&label1=EGit%20UI%20Open&labelgt=Grand%20Total&line0=1480&line1=1478&name=1478&subcategory=UI&action=wrap&width=1000&height=500

an EGit contributor (not committer) got this:

> Sorry, you aren't a member of the 'editbugs' group, and so you are not authorized to use the "New Charts" feature.

Is this intended? Could this restriction be lifted? I think we should have as few restrictions as possible for contributors.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2013-05-28 22:25:45 EDT

I'm not sure.  We certainly don't want to block out info or features, but we may have restricted it in the distant past if it was causing performance problems.

I'll have a look in the morning when I'm at a computer.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2013-05-29 09:57:46 EDT

It appears to be an intended restriction.  The New Charts was added in Bugzilla 2.18:
http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/2.18/new-features.html#gc



And this is the bug that discusses the need to restrict charts:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225687

Apparently the motivation is that the Charts mechanism does not consider who is running the chart, and it could lead to leaking info from product and bug info that may be restricted to specific groups.

Here at eclipse.org we don't have such groups and restrictions, but there may be a need for some in the near future as some of our projects become authorized to test and comment on restricted Oracle TCKs.

For now I'm going to close as WONTFIX.  The bugzilla developers put a restriction there a long time ago, and I don't want to mess with it.  As a committer you are free to post these charts anywhere, though -- just don't link to them.