Permission Violation when trying to view bug JDK-8016309

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

Christian Thalinger skrev 1/10/13 5:49 PM:
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> On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:14 AM, Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Volker,
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>> On 10/01/2013 11:34 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>
>>> thanks for the information. So does this mean that every bug report
>>> which contains some kind of "internal" URLs will be marked
>>> confidential automatically by the bug system? It would be interesting
>>> to know which URLs are objected to avoid putting such URLs in a bug
>>> report. Otherwise it may happen that I create a bug to which I will
>>> have no access later on because it included such an offending URL.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the current proceedures are. Hopefully someone with more insight into this will answer.
>>
>> When JBS was opened all bugs with internal  URLs in the summary were marked as confidential. Internal URLs in the comments only hid those specific comments.
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> The way to go here is to take the internal URLs and put them into confidential comments and open up the bug again.  That's what I do for the ones I'm coming across.

If you do that, the links will still be publicly available in the history of the 
bug. Is there a way to make history entries confidential?
/Jesper

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>>> Is it possible to manually remove the confidential flag if the author
>>> judges that it may be appropriate?
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>> I don't think so, but I might be wrong.
>>
>> StefanK
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>>>
>>> Volker
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Stefan Karlsson
>>> <stefan.karlsson at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Volker,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/01/2013 10:48 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> when trying to look at certain bugs like for example
>>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8016309 I am asked to log in
>>>>> to the JIRA system. However if I'm doing so I get the following error
>>>>> message:
>>>>>
>>>>> Permission Violation
>>>>> It seems that you have tried to perform an operation which you are not
>>>>> permitted to perform.
>>>>> If you think this message is wrong, please contact your JIRA
>>>>> administrators.
>>>>>
>>>>> What does this exactly mean?
>>>>
>>>> The bug was marked 'confidential' because it mentions Oracle internal URLs
>>>> from our testing in the summary.
>>>>
>>>> This is rather unfortunate and it's something bug reporters need to be more
>>>> cautious about going forward.
>>>>
>>>> StefanK
>>>>
>>>>> Notice that the fix for JDK-8016309 is currently under review on the
>>>>> hotspot-gc-dev list so it seems odd that the bug itself is not
>>>>> visible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Volker
>>>>
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