[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD bug tracking moves from GNATS to Bugzilla
Alfred Perlstein
alfred at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 3 14:50:09 UTC 2014
On 6/3/14, 5:16 AM, 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.
>
> I don't know that this decision is final, but it's certainly unlikely to be high up the priority list to implement it. For FreeBSD 11, we'd like to have an HTTP-based send-pr replacement, which will not be able to enforce a valid email address, but which will at least request one. Although, again, we'll have to be careful to prevent it from being used as a spam tool (send a pr claiming to be from a different email address with a spam message and that person gets notified) and so it will likely add the bug to a private queue where it can be checked for spam before appearing in the main db. Volunteers to be spam filters welcome...
I think a bunch of this can be solved by using oauth or something like
it. aka: login via github or facebook/twitter.
-Alfred
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