I got this error while trying to reassign a bug. How do we assign bugs to people not on the owners list? The name morse@netscape.com is not a valid username. Please hit the Back button and try again.

The problem here is that you can't assign a bug to someone who has never created themselves a bugzilla account. You need to send mail to morse and ask him to make himself a bugzilla account. Things should be happening in a week or two that will make this less likely. I should improve the error message.

The database is being reorganized a bit. Instead of the Bugzilla product, a new Webtools product has been created, with Bugzilla being a component of it. This bug is being moved from the old Bugzilla product to the new Webtools product.

terry, I am pretty sure the modules owner list got updated last week. Do you need to do something toget the latest list to tie into Bugzilla?

terry, I am pretty sure the modules owner list got updated last week. Do you need to do something toget the latest list to tie into Bugzilla?

terry, I am pretty sure the modules owner list got updated last week. Do you need to do something toget the latest list to tie into Bugzilla?

leger, that's not the problem at all. The problem is that there is no way to reassign a bug to someone who does not have a Bugzilla account. When I said I thought it would be fixed soon, it was because I was hoping to merge despot and Bugzilla accounts. Which is still something I hope to do, but I've stopped promising when!

Updating Summary to make more sense.

Setting all current Open/Normal to M4.

Clearing "M" field since Webtools product is not used for 5.0 specific project bug metrics and will mess up our queries on milestones.

Reassigning to dmose@mozilla.org, who now has front-line responsibility for all Bonsai and Bugzilla bugs.

This is an old bug. This works as intended as long as you have an account. However, dmose, did want to change the msg to say that "The person at the mail address you have indicated is either spelled incorrectly or does not currently have a Bugzilla account". These are the two scenarios which will give you this msg.

Reassigning back to me. That stuff about me no longer being the front-line person responsible for Bugzilla and Bonsai turned out to be short-lived. Please pardon our confusion, and I'm very sorry about the spam.

OK, I have finally done this rewording.

*** Bug 17498 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

marking Verified. works fine.

Moving to Bugzilla product