https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38095

--- Comment #6 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2012-11-20 16:05:25 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> This change was committed to Gerrit in
> Ieace3cd6d57b56559555ae0f1e6ec130e5d25c85 (“Updated config files per current
> usage”), changing
>  'default' => true, // fixme: log things instead
> to
>  'default' => false,
> 
> Was this really neccessary? Are the exception details somehow sensitive
> (showing private information or something)? Or is it just about
> user-friendliness (well, a fatal exception is hardly user-friendly)? Couldn’t
> we just hide the exception details under a “click for technical details”, or
> even into an HTML comment?
> 
> You know, on a public _wiki_ running on open-source software, I might want to
> diagnose the problem a bit myself, rather than just posting a hexnumber to
> Bugzilla and waiting for someone with shell access to look it up in the server
> logs…

+5 billion. Getting the info from a sysadmin in some cases is more work then
fixing the issue. Its also important to have this info to triage bugs.

>Are the exception details somehow sensitive
> (showing private information or something)?

There was. My understanding is that issue has been fixed. (Exceptions in
password related code was showing passwords)

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