When single bugs are displayed the "Assigned to" person is shown as plain text. Sometimes I'd like to mail him about the progress of the bug directly, but there is no mailtp: link if he hasn't posted a comment to that bug yet. Typing e-mail addresses manually is sooo inconvenient :-) So why not make it (and maybe the "reporter" as well) a mailto:-link?

Yes, there are lots of places where Bugzilla displays a name where it could have a mailto: link (In activity table, on bug form, in buglist...) I think there should be some sort of GetUserLink() call, in the same way that there is a GetBugLink() call, which would do the mailto: bit. I have a preliminary version of this, I'll attach a patch for discussion when 2.14 is out.

Moving to new Bugzilla product ...

Of course, putting lots of mailto: links around the place makes it easier for spammers to nab addresses, doesn't it? Should that be an issue? (Bearing in mind that Bugzilla already provides some mailto:'s anyway.)

I've just attached a proposal for a GetUserLink() routine, which could be used (or something like it, anyway) for displaying user info wherever an email address/user name is to be displayed.

I've just noticed bug#63524, which does a similar thing to thimy proposed routine (well, it does more, actually), so this will be fixed when that one is.

I don't agree with this. We purposefully avoid mailto links all over the place because that encourages people to use private mail about a bug rather than a public forum, and this is bad. For a start, no visible record exists of the query or request, so the assignee may get multiple mails about the same bug. Gerv

WONTFIX, for reasons given. Gerv

mmh, well, ok. I understand the reasoning (I just would have liked to make my frequent "you didn't fix that important bug yet"-mails a bit easier zo send :-)) verified

Gerv: Shouldn't there be more consistency to the way usernames/emails are displayed anyway? Why, for instance are bug comment authors displayed as username only, with a mailto link, and assigned to person is displayed as 'username (email address)', without a mailto? I agree with the reason for not having mailto's, but shouldn't it apply elsewhere as well?

clearing target milestone on resolved non-FIXED bugs so they'll get re-triaged if they get reopened.