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Bug 592995 - Debug: tell user about bug report and potential privacy violation
Debug: tell user about bug report and potential privacy violation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 3.8
Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-25 09:38 UTC by Guillaume Desmottes
Modified: 2012-10-09 14:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
debug-window: add infobar telling user about privacy (2.27 KB, patch)
2012-08-29 08:51 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes
committed Details | Review

Description Guillaume Desmottes 2009-08-25 09:38:41 UTC
If we want to encourage people to give us as much log as possible (bug 592994), we should probably warn then about the potential privacy violation problem if they attach their logs to a public bug report.

The good news is that the new GNOME bugzilla has now a box to mark a bug as visible only for the Empathy developpers. This checkbox is currently hidden as an advanced option but maybe we could ask the GNOME bugzilla team to always display it?

Then we could add this kind of message in the Debug window (as a footer? When the user hits the 'save all' button?):

"Even if they don't display passwords, logs can contain sensible information such as your list of contacts or the messages you recently sent or received. If you don't want to see such information available in a public bug reporter, you can choose to limit the visibility of your bug to Empathy developpers when reporting it".
Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-08-26 03:19:01 UTC
Hi Guillaume, just show an infobar widget at the top of the window below the toolbar, or at the bottom of the window, and call it a day :) you already have the text for it, should take a few minutes to solve this bug for someone who knows the codebase.
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-08-29 08:51:38 UTC
Created attachment 222723 [details] [review]
debug-window: add infobar telling user about privacy
Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-09-10 01:32:00 UTC
That label/explanation sounds reasonable (and reassuring) to me!
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-09-11 09:51:21 UTC
Good, I'll merge it for 3.8 then. thanks!
Comment 5 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-10-09 14:13:22 UTC
Attachment 222723 [details] pushed as 8df9026 - debug-window: add infobar telling user about privacy