On 3 June 2014 13:51, Michael Gmelin <gre...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >> On 03 Jun 2014, at 22:41, John Marino <freebsd.cont...@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?
Duno. If you can, please file a bug and let us know :) > 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. See above: === To preempt the next question: why don't we allow users to submit via email but verify with a token? That system isn't possible with how the gateway is set up now. Its a long term possability. If someone wants to help set that up please contact me offline (at bugmeister@). === -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
