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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] fuzz failures not generating bugs

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:38:35 -0800
On 12/3/12 9:06 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Gerald Combs wrote:
>> On 12/3/12 7:45 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>>> New bugs are showing up in the CONFIRMED state.  Shouldn't they be
>>> UNCONFIRMED?
>>
>> They should, but I don't think any humans have created bugs since the
>> last configuration change (the fuzz failure reporting script explicitly
>> sets the status to CONFIRMED).
> 
> I was thinking of bug 8044 came in yesterday at 21:37 EST which I
> thought was after the last config change (your last email about a config
> change was yesterday at 20:35 EST).

After exploring the rabbit hole a little further it turns out everyone
was in the "canconfirm" group. If you're a member of this group your
default status is CONFIRMED no matter what. Bugzilla doesn't have an
I_SAID_UNCONFIRMED_BY_DEFAULT_DAMMIT option so I had to tweak the code a
bit.