From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 3 20:51:48 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 0172DFD8 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2014 20:51:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.grem.de (outcast.grem.de [213.239.217.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F28E29A1 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2014 20:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 90777 invoked by uid 89); 3 Jun 2014 20:51:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.250.177?) (mg@grem.de@88.217.180.199) by mail.grem.de with ESMTPA; 3 Jun 2014 20:51:44 -0000 References: <92E4FB10-DDC8-4B3E-9242-4E8494491630@FreeBSD.org> <538DBAEC.5060905@gmail.com> <538E2924.3090002@gmx.de> <538E2AC9.7010309@sasktel.net> <538E32E5.5040400@marino.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) In-Reply-To: <538E32E5.5040400@marino.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <9D835692-C9A7-42B3-B514-2382C47ABD4F@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (11D201) From: Michael Gmelin Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD bug tracking moves from GNATS to Bugzilla Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 22:51:28 +0200 To: "marino@freebsd.org" Cc: Matthias Andree , "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" , Stephen Hurd 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 20:51:48 -0000 > On 03 Jun 2014, at 22:41, John Marino wrote: >=20 >> On 6/3/2014 22:06, Stephen Hurd wrote: >> Matthias Andree wrote: >>> 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. >>=20 >> I would venture that docs bugs and certain classes of website bugs >> rarely have communications. For example: >>=20 >> Those bugs would simply not have been submitted if I had to create an >> account first. >=20 >=20 > If the submitter's interest in getting the bug known in order to be > fixed exceeds the distaste for registration, then yes, the report would > still get submitted. (For example, if that person *really* wants to > access FreeBSD forums via IPv6 and nobody knows it's busted, they would > probably bite the bullet). >=20 Ah, is that the reason why I had so many issues with it lately? Could bugzilla maybe allow email verified submissions without an account? So= you report a bug with your email address and have to click verify in an ema= il response to get it to a state people will look at it. That would eliminat= e the whole "oh no, one more account/password" hassle, but reduce spam and l= ack of working back channels.=