Bug-buddy-emails and accounts

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

Currently when a bug-buddy email is submitted and the user does _not_
have a bugzilla.gnome.org account we:
 * asssign the bug to unknown gnome bugs
 * set a field in the bugs table to the real reporter

When this happens a weird comment is added telling other readers than
the bug has been reassigned. This makes a reading think that the
reporter doesn't receive the bugmail anymore. In practice they still do.

For 2.20 I want responses to emails to automatically add the comment to
the bug. There is a script for this that only needs some configuring
(+procmail). That script only works for persons with a *valid* Bugzilla
account.

Persons not having a Bugzilla account and just used bug-buddy will more
likely:
 - Not know about Bugzilla
 - Reply to every email transmitted to them

However, even with the add-comment-to-bug script this will still fail.
This can be solved in two ways:
1. If the user can't be found, add the comment as unknown gnome bugs
and include some text specifying the real submitter
2. Create normal Bugzilla accounts for bug-buddy emails

Option 1 is a hack upon a hack. I like option 2 more. Just mail the
password + instructions to them when the account has been created for
the first time. When they finally use that password and login, they will
actually be the reporter of the bugs they submitted (and have more
privileges).
Perhaps I could also do this for the existing accounts.

Thoughts?

-- 
Regards,
Olav