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Git code hosting beta (launchpadblog)

Posted May 8, 2015 16:30 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Git code hosting beta (launchpadblog) by raof
Parent article: Git code hosting beta (launchpadblog)

> I happen to think that requiring an account is a positive - if you're not invested enough in reporting the bug to make an account, it's probably better that you don't report the bug. We have no shortage of bug reports.

Which then annoys the people who actually make heavy use of a lot of systems. I have, what, eight e-mail folders for software I am seriously enough interested in to want to track the dev list. That's a LOT of reading. Do I then need another 20, 30 logins to bug-tracking systems for software that I may use extensively but am not seriously interested in?

Yes I know there's a spam problem etc etc, but it would be nice to be able to send an anonymous bug report, and know that there's a decent chance some developer will at least triage it and maybe promote it to "real bug", or point you at the relevant help or somesuch.

I don't expect much response from a drive-by bug report, but I really don't like software that puts hoop after hoop in front of you when you are trying to report a problem ...

Cheers,
Wol

Git code hosting beta (launchpadblog)

Posted May 9, 2015 16:50 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

> Do I then need another 20, 30 logins to bug-tracking systems for software that I may use extensively but am not seriously interested in?

For better or worse, sites like GitHub have alleviated that problem. I'm about 99% more likely to go report a found bug if the project it's in is on a site I don't have to do a register-email-login dance on.

(Honourable mention goes to the dnssec-validator project, which tried to allow anonymous bug reporting on their trac site. They had a captcha which didn't actually work. I couldn't be bothered reporting *that* bug.)

Git code hosting beta (launchpadblog)

Posted May 29, 2015 7:32 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

New bug reports are never spam in the Debian bug tracker, spammers never figured out how to put "Package: foo" at the top of the mail.