Self-Introduction: Jacques Supcik

[Jacques Supcik]

Dear Bugzilla Developers,

My name is "Jacques" (first name) "Supcik" (last name).
I am living in Villars-sur-Glâne, a small town near Fribourg in the
center of Switzerland (Central European Time)
I am a computer scientist. I got my diploma as "Informatik Ingenieur"
from ETHZ in 1992 and I finished my PhD in 1999.
I am programming with Perl for more than 10 years and I am a big fan of
Bugzilla. I would like to join the developers team because I would be
happy to contribute to this great product and make Bugzilla even better.
Besides this, my mother tongue is French so I could maybe also help with
some translations.
I also did a couple of modules on CPAN and I contributed to
"amavisd-new" where I did the LDAP lookup part.

You will find more information on my resume:
http://www.supcik.net/en/curriculum

I am not yet sure that I will find enough time to contribute a lot, but
I would like to give it a try...

My first contribution, if the team agrees and if nobody is currently
working on it, would be to simplify the provisioning of new users in
a closed environment (no self-registration).

Several times, I had to create accounts for my colleagues and I was 
looking for a feature that would:

   1) create the account (OK this feature already exists...)
   2) generate a (strong) random initial password
   3) send an e-mail to the new user with the URL of Bugzilla and with
      his initial credentials
   4) ask the user to change his/her password after having successfully
      logged in.

Note 1: 4) could be extended to implement a generic "password aging"
mechanism to improve security. This is sometimes required by some
company policies.

Note 2: We could also use a similar process to reset the password of a user.

Best Regards,

-- Jacques