Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 04:50, Greg Beaver<g...@chiaraquartet.net> wrote:
>
>> The disadvantages are obvious: everyone has to have an account and give
>> their email address to report a bug. The advantages are also obvious:
>>
>
> I *hate* when I am required to signup and do all sorts of weird
> validation crap before I can file bug reports.
>
> Things get even worse when projects hide the "new bug report" links
> for not-logged in users.
> I tend to drop out of the process midway and get to the conclusion
> "apparently they don't want me to report bugs".
>
> Also, there is no reason to maintain user system for bugs. Just
> outsource the login to openid or a "captcha" questions ("Are you a
> zombie?" don't know/yes/no).
Hi,
Actually, I hate requiring to do weird crap before filing too, and
PEAR's system was designed for people who hate doing crap prior to
filing. That's why the system PEAR uses is (1) file bug (2) verify
email. Incidentally, I may have been unclear: the "new bug report" link
is not hidden, just bugs from unverified users are not included in the
public list of bugs (about 60-80% of new bugs are ads for manly drugs, so
this is a good thing). signed in developers can see them and can also
manually mark them as "spam" which causes them to be purged daily.
The feeling of using it is infinitely friendlier than that used by
trackers such as Bugzilla where clicking "report bug" goes to a blank
page with a user/pass prompt.
Greg
P.S. the first time I sent this, the words "manly drugs" were a 6 letter
word starting with "v" and the mail server rejected it with:
550 550 we're manly enough already (state 18).
Nice :).
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