Description of problem: Today my gnome-shell crashed and when reporting the bug, I was asked whether I want to create a private bug report, because the report contains some private data. However, I was asked _before_ I was able to review the private data. Therefore there is only one possible answer to that question - Yes. If I have to decide in advance, I'll always create private bugs, of course. And that's very suboptimal for our project. The question should be asked after the user was given a chance review the private data, not before. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abrt-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-addon-ccpp-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-addon-pstoreoops-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-addon-python-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-addon-vmcore-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-addon-xorg-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-dbus-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-desktop-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-gui-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-gui-libs-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-libs-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-plugin-bodhi-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 abrt-retrace-client-2.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64 gnome-abrt-0.3.1-1.fc20.x86_64
I ran into this issue when reporting an emacs crash... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015293 After I selected a private bug report (because I could not examine what data was perceived as possibly sensitive), I reviewed the submitted data and found no reason to keep it private. After the bug report was submitted, I tried, as the reporter, to change the status from private to public. Bugzilla forbade this change. It is important to be more circumspect when a reduction in security level is requested than when an initial classification of (possibly) private data is made. This comment simply records there appears to be no way for a reporter to change the "private" classification he felt compelled to select when told there might be sensitive data in a bug report. It is not possible to work around this problem with a post-report edit.
I also note that in some cases, even when potentially sensitive information is flagged, that ABRT will let you edit the report to redact that data BEFORE actually posting anything upstream. But the screen that warns about "potentially sensitive information detected" makes no mention of the fact that "you will be given an opportunity to scrub the data before submitting it externally". Adding that bit of reassurance would make me more prone to not be private-by-default.
Also, please never use YES-NO buttons in a question dialog. It's so easy to confuse them. Please call them "make it private" and "leave it public" or something similar. Focus the public one by default.
I'm no longer working on ABRT, reassign to the new manager, so it won't get lost.
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I believe this bug is fixed in current release.