Hi, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 3 June 2014 10:11, John Marino <freebsd.cont...@marino.st> wrote: > > ... it's doubtful most folks unwilling to register are > > about to make a meaningful report... > > This is *not* the reason for registation. > > The reason for registation is that we know from experience that having > a way to talk with the reporter drastically increases the chance that > the bug will get fixed. Registration offers verification of the > submitters email. > We would rather get fewer higher quality and more engaged bugs than > what we've had in the past where bugs were a one way vent. > > 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@).
Postmaster@ & webmaster@ are precedents. The orthogonal address should be bugmaster@, (with an alias from bugmeister for the lost). A random German Meister appended to Bug invites a French Maitre for next name. > What about bug followups via email? That one won't be supported for a > bit as we get used to bugzilla. That will discourage response. Some don't have or want net 24/7, nor want to check a web in case someone might have asked for feedback, nor want heavy browsers rather than a lightweight mail tool. Some will want to edit with font style, size, colour, word wrapping, & vi keys, preference set by minimal latency localhost. > It certainly on the cards to support > in the future. Good, I've previously encountered people with patches who couldn't be bothered to submit a send-pr. Requiring just web follow up will deter more. Perhaps the reported initial rush may settle down, a mix of pent up demand post switch over, + the trendy who try new things. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com Interleave replies Below, like a play script. _______________________________________________ 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"
