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

[Darren Pilgrim]

On 6/3/2014 7:50 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
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> On 6/3/14, 5:16 AM, David Chisnall wrote:
>> On 3 Jun 2014, at 13:09, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>> - 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.

No, no, no, no, no, no.  Also, hell no, and good god, man, are you daft?

Requiring oauth will literally guarantee me and a whole bunch of other 
people will never have bugzilla accounts.