On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Samuel Lelievre
<samuel.lelie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 16 avr, 16:20, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
>> On 4/16/11 8:40 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>
>> > Quite honestly, when have a bug to report, if I can't finish the
>> > transaction right away then it's unlikely I'll go through the hoops
>> > and report the bug later (unless the bug is really important). This is
>> > especially true if I have to wait for a human to enter the loop, so we
>> > want to have the barrier as low as possible.
>>
>> +1
>
> I feel the same. During Sage Days 28, we got a lot of new users
> who had never used Sage before, nor posted to sage-support or
> any Sage list, and we got them all to register to the trac server
> and file a small problem in Sage.
This page is worth pointing out in the context of this discussion:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pCwvGVwSMxTzT6E2xNdo5fA
It's what you get when you click "Report a Problem" in the upper-right
corner of any Sage notebook server, and allows for a very easy way for
somebody to report a bug...
-- William
>
>> > Ideally, anyone could file a bug on trac (or a similar system), and
>> > only after they're moderated do they become visible. After a number
>> > (maybe even one) ticket is accepted, the moderation would then be
>> > lifted.
>
> +1
>
>> > Another option would be to only allow automatic account
>> > creation for emails seen on sage-[devel|support], which could be
>> > easily automated, perhaps with email verification (a link sent out).
>> > Does anyone know if trac can be set up like that? +1 to a
>> > sage-trac-admin group which could easily handle the rest. The hurdle
>> > to jump would be someone else vouching for them or a bug to report or
>> > an (intelligent) comment/fix to an existing bug, which is why anyone
>> > would want an account anyways. I really don't think the bar needs to
>> > be raise that high to filter out the spammers--I don't think we're big
>> > enough to attract more than the semi-automated shotgun-approach
>> > attack.
>>
>> How about this plugin:
>>
>> https://software.sandia.gov/trac/fast/wiki/TicketModerator
>>
>> and/or this:
>>
>> http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter
>>
>> I agree with Robert that a moderation approach is better than a huge
>> waiting period to get a trac account. After a person is moderated once
>> or twice with decent bug reports, they could be added to the
>> non-moderated users.
>
> +1
>
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