On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: >> >> > Practically every other open source project on the planet (including all >> > Google Code projects) make their bugtracker viewable without >> > registration. >> > ?I don't think there is anything sufficiently different about us that we >> > should diverge from common practice in a way that inconveniences people >> > as >> > this does. >> >> You don't think that a sudden rise in spam, googling your email address, >> finding it on our bug tracker because we forgot to click the "make private" >> button, would result in people becoming avenging angels who will tell all >> their friends that we are diabolical and hunt us for the rest of our lives? > > No, it will encourage them to be more careful with their email address > online, just as is necessary with every other open source bugtracker on the > planet. > Why must you always look for ways to make it harder for people to > participate in the project? > Ian.
Can we get this changed back already? It's causing problems. Toad: It seems to me that if you want to propose a policy change on such things, you should propose it and then implement after discussion, not implement and then discuss. Since this appears to be an accidental side effect of an upgrade, which provoked a policy discussion, I think we should undo the change while discussing it. Ian: Your email makes it sound like you think toad is actively trying to discourage participation. I somehow doubt that's the case; I think he's simply worried about the spam problem. I happen to agree with you, not him, but that doesn't make his concern irrelevant. I think encouraging participation is a complex and many-faceted problem. An open bugtracker is one facet; a discussion list culture that embraces discussion over arguments and name-calling is another. In other words, I think that we should try to encourage something along the lines of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith Evan Daniel
