Bugzilla: Reporter filing bugs to oneself

[Daniel Berlin]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:

> I tried to assign a bug that I reported to myself, but I got this error
> from Bugzilla:
>
> "You tried to change the Status field from UNCONFIRMED to ASSIGNED, but
> only the owner or submitter of the bug, or a sufficiently empowered
> user, may change that field."
>
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18106)
>
> This is a little strange, as I am in fact the submitter of the bug.  Am
> I doing something wrong, or is this error message inaccurate?

You don't have edit privileges, so you can't edit bugs, even to assign 
them to yourself.
It doesn't check who the submitter is, only who the person trying to do 
the edit is.
Since I see you are write-after-approval, i'll add edit privs to your 
bugzilla account.
>
> Aaron W. LaFramboise
>
>