From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 3 19:59:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F62BCA for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2014 19:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3122B2402 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2014 19:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mandree.no-ip.org ([78.49.82.139]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MSp1l-1XHWkq2ezF-00Rnuk for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 21:59:33 +0200 Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost6.localdomain6 [IPv6:::1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4002223CE7C for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2014 21:59:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <538E2924.3090002@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 21:59:32 +0200 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD bug tracking moves from GNATS to Bugzilla References: <92E4FB10-DDC8-4B3E-9242-4E8494491630@FreeBSD.org> <538DBAEC.5060905@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <538DBAEC.5060905@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:x5ZT4YiInurHaqRxP1MHTxoQs8UnPEISdGWz20sB0Hb9T8dW7GO 82ZYx8j7Zt2Y6gxbWACRyplHFYmXVNfxwXoZe/5Jwa5q2hRgNtxMwZRN3Ifqlu6aeWQx5gT aSlN/1FgYbVTBQtde7C9k7c+Bbm3d/AfHJCU4/TwngpUGCKCEP37oJhunzKgK/oXKK4Cofg NV9sRSieqLfUFgVSP2+6Q== X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:59:36 -0000 Am 03.06.2014 14:09, schrieb Vitaly Magerya: > On 2014-06-03 11:05, David Chisnall wrote: >> We are pleased to announce that the FreeBSD project has begin the >> transition from the GNATS bug-tracking system to Bugzilla. The >> Bugzilla installation can be found here: >> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ > > It doesn't seem to be possible to post comments (or bugs) without > creating an account and logging in. No comment-by-email too, as far as I > can tell. > I'd cast a vote against such features. I've made that experiment upstream in a project unrelated to FreeBSD, and received too many hit-and-run-style bug reports of anonymous posters that were insufficient. I asked questions back and did not receive a response, for whatever reason - and if that the reporter never checked if I commented on their bug, frustration, having moved on to other projects, you never know. Wasted time for bugs never found, never fixed. While having a valid-looking email address from a submitter does not guarantee a reply when developers have further questions, at least it raises the chance that the submitter (reporter) knows more information is needed. 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.