On 13 Jan 2003, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >Date: 13 Jan 2003 16:41:24 +0100 >From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice > >[Egbert Eich] >> Up to now it is not even clear who should be able to >> submit to this bug tracking system: >> Should it be internal only? >> Should only projects like GNOME, KDE etc and distributions like >> RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake be able to submit bugs? >> Or should it be open to the general public? > >It should be open to the general public, but require a working email >address to submit and modify bug reports.
Absolutely. Bug reports submitted without a real email address are 99% of the time completely and totally useless. I would strongly oppose any notion to allow anonymous bug reporting such as sourceforge's [EMAIL PROTECTED] type of bug reports. Such bug reports suck because XFree86 related bug reports often require someone to ask for more information before something can be investigated, and if the person doesn't have a real email address, there is no way of saying back "I need to know foo", at which point such bug reports are no better than the previously private [EMAIL PROTECTED] bug report address. I believe bugzilla requires valid logins for everyone already though, so that's not a problem, or shouldn't be. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
