Alan Coopersmith writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> > Valerie Bubb Fenwick writes:
> >> We am looking at things that are missing from bugzilla
> >> that would hold us back from using this as the sole
> >> bugtracking tool for Solaris/OpenSolaris, instead of
> >> the two we are using now.
> > 
> > In addition to Danek's fairly complete comparison (and I agree that
> > treating RFE as a "severity" is really weird):
> > 
> >   "Can't Live Without"
> > 
> >     We use that "security" flag to bowdlerize bug reports.  Bugzilla
> >     seems to have no equivalent.
> 
> It's not setup in our bugzilla yet, but I actually prefer the way this is
> handled in the bugzilla installation we use at X.Org over the bugster way -
> security bugs are flagged as private to the security team until advisory
> release, once the advisory is public, the flag is removed and the bug becomes
> publicly visible.

That does sound like a nice feature to add.

> Anything that really needs to stay permanently secret isn't really a security
> handling issue, but just another instance of the general "handling 
> confidential
> data" issue, along with customer & partner confidential information.

Agreed; it's unrelated.  It's just a special hammer used for one type
of problem.

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