[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD bug tracking moves from GNATS to Bugzilla

Vitaly Magerya vmagerya at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 12:41:35 UTC 2014


On 2014-06-03 15:16, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2014, at 13:09, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It doesn't seem to be possible to post comments (or bugs)
>> without creating an account and logging in.
>
> That is correct.  The current leaning is towards not providing
> such functionality as:
>
> - It makes spamming easy
>
> - If someone can't be bothered to make an account, they are
>   unlikely to provide the feedback required to correctly
>   diagnose the bug.

Let my protest against such sweeping judgements be noted.

>> No comment-by-email too, as far as I can tell.
>
> This is probably going to reappear at some point, if there is
> sufficient demand for it.

I see. Consider me to be expressing the demand then.

Anything that would allow me to participate without using an account 
would be very much appreciated.


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