GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 592995
Debug: tell user about bug report and potential privacy violation
Last modified: 2012-10-09 14:13:25 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".
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.
Created attachment 222723 [details] [review] debug-window: add infobar telling user about privacy
That label/explanation sounds reasonable (and reassuring) to me!
Good, I'll merge it for 3.8 then. thanks!
Attachment 222723 [details] pushed as 8df9026 - debug-window: add infobar telling user about privacy