On Friday, March 23, 2018 13:38:38 Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > 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.
You mentioned that you thought that most people expected the bug tracker to be be on github, which is why I said what I did. And whether you think that it should be on github or not, there are others who like to bring it up from time to time. I have no idea what it would take to support openauth or what the pros and cons of that would be. Personally, I _prefer_ to have separate logins for things so that the risk of spam and whatnot is segregated and so that there is less of a connection between sites that I use, but I also usually use a different e-mail address for every site that I deal with so that I can more easily filter my e-mail and know where e-mail addresses leak, and that's not a typical thing for folks to do. I also use a password manager so that having more passwords to worry about is not an issue, and while many folks do that, many do not. But with what little I know of the situation with openauth, I'm not aware of a reason why it would be a problem to enable it in addition to normal logins - assuming that bugzilla makes it straightforward anyway. I have no idea whether any version of bugzilla supports it or not. - Jonathan M Davis
