R Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joe Buck wrote: >> [The request to create a login] also helps assure that the bug >> filer is a real person. If Bugzilla provided an anonymous way to >> file Bugzilla reports, we'd probably have spammers filling the bug >> database with ads for penis enlargement. > > RESOLVED: WORKSFORME
I laughed, but Joe is right. The Debian bug database, which creates new bug reports for every message sent to its submit@ address, has had to institute aggressive automated spam filtering, and its bugmasters still spend plenty of time weeding spam out of the database. However, Ross is also right; it is one more hoop to jump through to submit a bug report, and privacy concerns aside, some people may just get annoyed and give up at that point. A possible happy medium might be to merge the two forms for people who aren't already logged in:- --- Bugzilla does not know who you are. We need a valid email address for you so that we can contact you to discuss your bug report. If you already have an account, enter your email address and password below. If you don't, enter your email address and leave the password field blank; Bugzilla will email you a password. Email address: |----------| Password: |----------| --- [existing tell-us-about-the-bug form here] Could probably be improved further; I just made that up off the top of my head. zw
