What is the big deal in having to log in again? If you save your credentials in your browser, it's literally just one more click.
I'd like to thank the RT admins in providing this service free to the Perl community; it is really awesome that a bug queue is created automatically for every distribution without the authors having to do a single thing to set it up. On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Shawn, > > sorry for the late response. I'm CCing module-authors becase you did not > explicitly specify that you wish this reply to be kept private. > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Shawn M Moore via RT < > cpan-questi...@bestpractical.com> wrote: > >> On Fri Nov 18 06:01:48 2016, shlo...@gmail.com wrote: >> > Dear rt-cpan-admin >> >> Hi Shlomi, >> >> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > Dear sirs and madams, >> > > >> > > thanks for maintaining http://rt.cpan.org/ . >> > > >> > > There is, however, a long-standing problem with it that the site keeps >> > > logging me out (usually after I close my browser), and I keep having to >> > > login again. This makes it frustrating to use rt.cpan.org. Please fix it >> > > as soon as possible. >> >> RT uses session cookies (also called transient cookies) which, as you >> describe, usually clear when you close your browser. It's a tradeoff we make >> for security. >> >> I see. That sounds like a very bad trade off in this day and age, because > people often need to reboot for new kernel / new libc / system update / > etc. or they need to restart their browsers because they either crashed or > started consuming too much RAM (and as you may know - browsers like Firefox > or GChromium have recently become memory hogs). > > I suppose I can convert to use GitHub Issues / GitLab Issues / Bitbucket > Issues / etc. - at least for my own CPAN distributions - but this will > involve a lot of manual tweaking and uploading new versions. Perhaps it > will be the last straw for creating my own Dist Zilla PluginBundle. > > Regards, > > -- Shlomi Fish > > > >> > > Regards, >> > > >> > > -- Shlomi Fish >> >> Best, >> Shawn >> >> > > > -- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > > You can never truly appreciate The Gilmore Girls until you've watched it > in the original Klingon. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . >
