On 23 March 2018 at 12:25, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, March 23, 2018 12:13:58 Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: >> On 23 March 2018 at 12:02, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 3/23/2018 11:14 AM, Manu wrote: >> >> This happened to me again on Tuesday this week... >> > >> > All bugzilla requires is a name and a password. It does not do any >> > verification. Heck, just type in xxx yyy and it'll work. This trivial >> > bit of effort makes it effective in preventing troll posts :-) >> >> Well, my colleague isn't a troll. A genuinely interested party, but >> he's not gonna go out of his way for it. I can't control the natural >> reaction that most people have to being confronted with a registration >> page. >> I'd suggest openauth, and people using their github accounts; I think >> that's what people expect. I mean, most people just expect the bug >> tracker to BE on github ;) > > Really? I've dealt with relatively few projects that use github as a bug > tracker, and it's been my experience that most anything that's really > serious has its own bugtracker (usually some form of bugzilla) - though most > such projects predate github by a long shot. I'd think that signing up for a > bugtracker would be par for the course and that if anything, the fact that a > project was using github issues instead of its own bugtracker would imply > that it was small, which doesn't necessarily give a good impression - > especially for a compiler. > > And with how simplistic github issues are in comparison to bugzilla, I don't > know why you'd want to use it other than the fact that you don't have to go > to the effort of setting up your own bugzilla. I'd certainly hate to see us > switch to github issues just because a few folks weren't willing to sign up > for a bugzilla account, though for whatever reason, some folks keep pushing > for us to switch over.
I'm not suggesting switch to github. I've never suggested that. I understand it's inferior. I'm suggesting supporting openauth.
