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

Michael Gmelin grembo at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 3 17:21:19 UTC 2014



> On 03 Jun 2014, at 19:11, John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/3/2014 18:57, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
>> 2014-06-03 14:16 GMT+02:00 David Chisnall <theraven at freebsd.org>:
>> 
>> A mood point for me, as I'll need a full account, but the Project should
>> not make reporting bugs harder than it is already ... have you considered
>> using reCATPCHA or something to fend of at least some of the spam?
> 
> Both ineffective and highly annoying continuously, not just one time
> like registration is.   If there's a vote between captcha-any-flavor and
> registration, I'll vote for the latter every single time.
> 
> I'm with Chisnall - it's doubtful most folks unwilling to register are
> about to make a meaningful report.  And it's pretty much the standard
> today.  What can you still post on anonymously / no registration that
> isn't policed by humans 24/7?  Not much that I can 

Phabric.freebsd.org also allows to sign up using github and twitter, I would like to see the same for bugzilla (and maybe some other option like g+).


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