> On 03 Jun 2014, at 22:52, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote: > >> 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 :)
Will test later from my home line... > > >> 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@). > === Well, I didn't mean *via* email, but specifying a valid email address in a web form. This could be done using the old web form on freebsd.org and using an email verification loop that holds submissions outside of bugzilla until the verification link has been clicked. I don't know any details of the current setup, but I would assume this is quite doable. > > -- > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
