On 9/1/2014 9:11 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
d. making me create an account in order to submit the report
Hmm, this is actually an argument in favour of migrating our issue tracking to
github, as people are more likely to have an account there.
I know we require an account to submit something to bugzilla. The main reason
for that is to reduce spam. But we don't require an account for the forums, so
worst case a drive-by bug report can be posted in the forums.
Bottom line is, if someone wants to submit a patch via bugzilla, or even
email, we should be accommodating, or at least not blow him off. I've often
added Bugzilla issues for things I've received via email.
Generally, patches in bugzilla just rot. Letting potential contributors think
their work won't be wasted if they submit it to bugzilla would most likely lead
to disappointment.
I'm curious what outstanding patches exist in bugzilla. Clearly, we need to make
a pass through and check.
Copy-pasting a bug report into bugzilla is luckily a much less involved process
than testing, presenting, updating and arguing for a pull request.
Yup.
