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Date:      Tue, 3 Jun 2014 15:36:42 -0700
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        mexas@bris.ac.uk
Cc:        marino@freebsd.org, grembo@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, matthias.andree@gmx.de, shurd@sasktel.net
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD bug tracking moves from GNATS to Bugzilla
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgnZTe08Ey-1rMb-YMOgLauiG5ZqvOH1cjT=5CT9bW_X5g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201406032203.s53M3tOB011872@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On 3 June 2014 15:03, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>>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=
 email response to get it to a state people will look at it. That would eli=
minate the whole "oh no, one more account/password" hassle, but reduce spam=
 and lack of working back channels.
>
> Or what about a concept of a registered FreeBSD user?
> Some sort of a database of users known to the project.
> So that the info in send-pr will be enough to accept a PR,
> perhaps with another id field or similar?

This exits.  send-pr will use your email account if it exists.

> This still wouldn't allow anonymous posting, but
> will remove the need to login each time.

An interesting idea would be to have send-pr reject email from
accounts that don't exist (as opposed to creating them).  We'll
consider this as time goes on.


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Eitan Adler



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