Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 24869
Subscription to mailing lists not obvious
Last modified: 2021-05-27 19:28:22 UTC
If you are not logged in then there is no obvious way to subscribe to a mailing list from the mailing list page like http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList In former SourceCast versions (1.1.3) there were mailto links which should be added again.
The earlier version of Sourcecast has lesser security precautions compared to the present Version. Mailing list are part of projects, When you are not a part of a project, you would obviously be denied information about them. It is not plausible to give out project information to a Non-Member. If we give Mailing list permission to person who do not log in, then there is not security for the project info. The product is working as designed Lessening priority as does nto affect the work flow -Mohan
From my point of view this has nothing to do with security and would like to be informed about design changes. - It's not obvious to me to deny anonymous guests access to project information. - It is plausible for us to give anonymous guests access to mailing lists (incl. the archive) without the need to login. - You can subscribe to a project mailing list without any security measures. It affects the workflow to request a login before you can subscribe. This leads to confusion and complains from our users. Raising prio back to p2.
Have filed an PCN Requesting a Enhancement, since this was working as designed Timeframe : Will Update the Engineers response as & when internal query is updated Thanks -Mohan
Hi St, The option to allow anonymous guest subscriber to mail list can be given by admin by adding the permission kindly add the permission to anonymous guest in "http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/RolePermissionAdd?roleID=2" & the guest will be able subscribe to the mailing list -Thanks mohan
Could you let me know precisely which permission I should add to the role Anonymous Guest?
1) I believe Mohan was confused w/ some permission perameters. As you already stated, anonymous users can subscribe to your mail lists. 2) there's already an internal enhancement request for clearer html links to the html subscriptions. I've updated the whiteboard w/ that number. 3) the easiest workaround is to do what you've already done on the main page with a link to http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html#general updating whiteboard, changing issue type, lowering priority as the workaround is in place
Update : The issue is still in engineers queue . Have queried the engineers. Next Update: Will provide their update as soon s it is received -Mohan
Engineers are checking on the way to push back to the earlier method of subscribtion. Will update soon after their solution is delivered -mohan
Along with other mailing list related issues, this is being considered for the Hudson release. Marking this as RESOLVED->REMIND.
> Business impact? I struggle with the description of the business impact as I consider this a regression (a DEFECT) compared to the earlier SourceCast version. For publicly available lists it's confusing to ask for registration/login before one is easily able to subscribe to a list. Interested people struggle with the subscription and won't join the list (and/or project).
Given the recent rework on the communication part of SC/CEE it might be a good time to review the issue. Reopened for proper handling.
Hi, This issue is considered for the future release of CEE. Changing the Target Milestone accordingly. We will be updating you on the status of the issue. Regards, Jeeva Support Operations
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Marking as Resolved - Later. Regards, Jeeva Support Operations
Removing the unused keywords from the Keywords field. Regards, Karishma Support Operations
Hi The issue is being considered for future release of CEE. Support will continue to monitor the issue & review the fix in the corresponding release. Regards, Vathsan Support Operations.
CollabNet Support is currently reviewing the issues under Resolved-Later. If the issues are fixed currently in any of the present CEE releases, then it will be marked as Resolved-Fixed. There might be a few issues which might not be in our future roadmap which might be closed as Wontfix unless it does not lie under any custom request.
In DS, Guest posting can be enabled fro public project discussion & a guest can post in message & see the already existing messages by use of Web URL. Hence marking it as fixed as it is available in CEE 5.0