OK, I updated the wiki. Thanks John (and whoever approved my account). I would love to see the policy changed to at least allow users to view individual bug report pages without logging in and allow search engines to index them again, but I don't know what obstacles there are to supporting that without the server getting overloaded again. I understand the change is very new and I trust you all will make an appropriate decision based on the feedback you receive and the availability of people to work on it; it's not my place as someone minimally involved with the project to push for anything. Hence I kept the wiki factual and didn't promise anything.
FWIW, I can sympathize: Back in June 2024, bots were overloading the gitweb repository viewer on my personal web site. I had limited energy to deal with it at the time, so I just shut gitweb down completely, maintaining "git clone" access. I think most of the load was from bots performing computationally expensive queries with every possible combination of parameters, and I hoped I could safely restore the ability to just view the latest versions of files, but with the relatively low traffic that my web site gets, so far I haven't able to justify the work to implement that. Matt On Mon, 2025-09-01 at 16:58 -0700, John Ralls wrote: > Sure. Even wanting to fix a typo is sufficient. We’re mostly trying > to weed out spammers and people who think they need a wiki account to > use GnuCash. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Sep 1, 2025, at 15:16, Matt McCutchen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 07:52 +1000, David H wrote: > > > Read the post at > > > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2025-September/117417.html > > > for the reasons behind the bugzilla login. > > > > Thanks for the pointer. I guess that was too recent to come up in my > > web search. It didn't cross my mind that the change could be that > > recent. > > > > I think it would be helpful to document the rationale for the new > > policy on https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla . I would be happy to > > write the text, but am I justified in requesting a wiki account just > > for that? > > > > Matt _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
