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

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 03 Jun 2014, at 22:41, John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/3/2014 22:06, Stephen Hurd wrote:
>> Matthias Andree wrote:
>>> Surely there may be valid and sometimes useful comments by people who
>>> aren't the original reporter, but for the common case that the bug
>>> evolves into a discussion between a developer and a reporter having a
>>> valid BIDIRECTIONAL communications channel up front helps a lot.
>> 
>> I would venture that docs bugs and certain classes of website bugs
>> rarely have communications.  For example:
>> 
>> Those bugs would simply not have been submitted if I had to create an
>> account first.
> 
> 
> If the submitter's interest in getting the bug known in order to be
> fixed exceeds the distaste for registration, then yes, the report would
> still get submitted.  (For example, if that person *really* wants to
> access FreeBSD forums via IPv6 and nobody knows it's busted, they would
> probably bite the bullet).
> 

Ah, is that the reason why I had so many issues with it lately?

Could bugzilla maybe allow email verified submissions without an account? So you report a bug with your email address and have to click verify in an email response to get it to a state people will look at it. That would eliminate the whole "oh no, one more account/password" hassle, but reduce spam and lack of working back channels.