FS#65551 - Flyspray shows my own username after each comment

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Christian Kujau (ckujau) - Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 01:30 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 20:29 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Arch Projects
Status Closed
Assigned To Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: For some reason the Arch Linux Bugtracker ("Flyspray") writes my own username after every comment made by other people, and also to the bug's summary ("Opened by" and "Last edited"). This happens for every bug listed, even for those that I did not have any interaction with. Of course, this only happens when I'm actually logged in to bugs.archlinux.org. Reading my own username after every comment is kinda distracting and often makes me go "did I really write this...oh, wait...no, I didn't."

I could not find a UI configuration knob to disable this and could not "reproduce" this on the upstream Flyspray bugtracker, bugs.flyspray.org.

I've attached a screenshot to illustrate this for the Arch Linux bugtracker, and another one from Flyspray that does not have this issue. I assume that's just a configuration issue on the Flyspray installation, maybe this can be fixed somehow?
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Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 20:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  PEBCAK
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 01:56 GMT
This makes no sense :/

Normally that is where you see the text "- Friday, 14 February 2020, 06:49 GMT-4 — Edit — Delete" or somesuch
Comment by Christian Kujau (ckujau) - Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 06:44 GMT
Yes, that would be more helpfuly and it is what I see when I am NOT logged in to the bugs.archlinux.org. Also, this happens across multiple browsers and platforms, w/o any addons installed. But it would be strange if I'm the only one experiencing this, or maybe everyone else got used to this and nobody else cared to report this?
Comment by Christian Kujau (ckujau) - Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 19:58 GMT
OK, turns out this _was_ related a UI configuration setting after all. In my user's settings, there is a field called "Detailed date format" and it is always pre-filled with my username. So, whenever I would go to my settings to e.g. update my password or my time zone and hit "Update details" the "Detailed date format" will automatically be updated to my username.

Explicitly clearing that field "fixed" this issue and I now see the timestamps after comments and related ticket details. Visiting the settings page again I have to clear my username again from the "Detailed date format" field. The field is defined as:

<input id="dateformat_extended" class="text" name="dateformat_extended" type="text" size="40" maxlength="30" value="">

...and I don't know why this would be pre-filled. But this appears to be related to my Firefox instance, when using another browser the field is not auto-filled. So, sorry for the noise everyone, I'll crawl back under my stone again.
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 20:05 GMT
Do you have a password manager that is auto-filling the wrong fields?

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