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Date:      Tue, 03 Jun 2014 07:50:33 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD bug tracking moves from GNATS to Bugzilla
Message-ID:  <538DE0B9.7040805@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <AC5B5F36-CB39-40C2-8979-8D2007B0892A@FreeBSD.org>
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On 6/3/14, 5:16 AM, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2014, at 13:09, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It doesn't seem to be possible to post comments (or bugs) without creating an account and logging in.
> That is correct.  The current leaning is towards not providing such functionality as:
>
> - It makes spamming easy
>
> - If someone can't be bothered to make an account, they are unlikely to provide the feedback required to correctly diagnose the bug.
>
> I don't know that this decision is final, but it's certainly unlikely to be high up the priority list to implement it.  For FreeBSD 11, we'd like to have an HTTP-based send-pr replacement, which will not be able to enforce a valid email address, but which will at least request one.  Although, again, we'll have to be careful to prevent it from being used as a spam tool (send a pr claiming to be from a different email address with a spam message and that person gets notified) and so it will likely add the bug to a private queue where it can be checked for spam before appearing in the main db.  Volunteers to be spam filters welcome...
I think a bunch of this can be solved by using oauth or something like 
it.  aka: login via github or facebook/twitter.

-Alfred



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