Will lost bugzilla comments be restored?

Will lost bugzilla comments be restored?

[Stephen Casner]

The bug 94085 that I reported at 2020-03-07 06:26 appears to be one of
a half dozen that lost their comments due to the server move.  I've
been standing by as instructed, but I wonder when or if corrections
will happen.  Will these comments be restored, or should I reconstruct
them?

Also, I created my gcc bugzilla account just before reporting the bug,
so it may be in limbo as well.  I saw that my name as the reporter of
bug 94085 has been replaced by Carlos O'Ryan.  Also, my login attempt
fails and when I try to do the password reset I do not receive the
reset email.  Do I need to create a new account?

A few years ago I created a Sourceware bugzilla account to report a
bug in binutils.  Are these being merged?

Stephen Casner
casner@acm.org

Re: Will lost bugzilla comments be restored?

[Jonathan Wakely]

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 03:54, Stephen Casner wrote:
>
> The bug 94085 that I reported at 2020-03-07 06:26 appears to be one of
> a half dozen that lost their comments due to the server move.  I've
> been standing by as instructed, but I wonder when or if corrections
> will happen.  Will these comments be restored, or should I reconstruct
> them?

I'm not sure, so please go ahead and re-add them as new comments on
the bug. I suspect that's how we'll end up "restoring" them anyway, so
if you do it yourself it saves somebody else doing it.

> Also, I created my gcc bugzilla account just before reporting the bug,
> so it may be in limbo as well.  I saw that my name as the reporter of
> bug 94085 has been replaced by Carlos O'Ryan.  Also, my login attempt
> fails and when I try to do the password reset I do not receive the
> reset email.  Do I need to create a new account?

Yes, there is no account for this email address, so it seems to have
been lost (and then your bug picked up a new owner). Sorry about that.

Once you've recreated your account it might be possible for one of the
sysadmins to manually edit the database to change the bug reporter
back to your account.

> A few years ago I created a Sourceware bugzilla account to report a
> bug in binutils.  Are these being merged?

No, they're separate bugzilla instances and will stay that way.