Real names with parens ( ) confuse bugzilla. For example, look at any bug assigned to Leaf, like bug 7487. Scroll down a bit, and two lines above the "commit" button it reads "Reassign bug to leaf@netscape.com (Daniel" instead of "Reassign bug to leaf@netscape.com". This can cause strange things, see my comment dated 2000-10-27 06:38 in bug 20092: | I managed to change bug 36358 from assigned to new although I'm not allowed | to do something like this. This is how I did that: | | I wasn't logged in to Bugzilla when viewing that bug. Then I added my | comment, and logged in in another Mozilla window. Then I hit commit. | Bugzilla complained that I tried to change the owner or something from | "leaf@netscape.com" to "leaf@netscape.com (Daniel" (without the quotes). So | I hit the back button and deleted the " (Daniel" from the "assign to" | field. I hit commit again and this time Bugzilla was happy with it. Maybe it's even one of the reasons for bug 20092. And if not, it's at least confusing. I really thought this bug would have been filed already, but I just couldn't find it. By the way, this is the reason why I put my IRC nick inside [ ] instead of ( ).

Bug 63524 has fixes this (kinda as a side effect). The problem is in this code block (line 447 of bugform.pl): if ( $bug{'assigned_to'} =~ /(.*)\((.*)\)/ ) { $bug{'assigned_to'} = $1; chop($bug{'assigned_to'}); } What I did in bug 63524 was put the e-mail adress in $bug{assigned_to_email} and used that at line 451.

*** Bug 55786 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I'll take the relevent stuff out of bug 63524 and attach it here. It's really fairly simple.

This bug has a simple fix (thanks Jake!) and really should be fixed since it causes lots of trouble (see my initial comments). So renominating for 2.12. Also removing dependency to bug 63524 since I don't see the reason any more why that bug would block this one. I'll test the patch out myself soon (hopefully).

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Sorry for the spam, but I needed to be able to query for all of these correctly.

VERIFIED. Gerv

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