2013/2/6, Kevin Krammer <kram...@kde.org>: > Hi folks, > > at FOSDEM I was approached by a person who asked me to relay his > dissatisfaction with the requirement of having a KDE Bugzilla account to > report crashes via the KDE crash handler dialog. > > The issue in his case was kind of made worse by having this obstacle appear > too late, i.e. after he had followed the instructions to create a useful > backtrace and had downloaded several tens of megabytes of debug symbols. > > Being a FOSS developer himself he said that he understands the need for > having > a communication channel with the reported, but just having an email address > for that would be sufficient (e.g. Debian's bug tracker works that way). > > So the question is whether alternative login options [1] are something we > could do or whether this is impossible in our setup or just something we > don't > want to do because of certain drawbacks.
We have some vague ideas to make the crash reporter not use bugzilla at all, and instead submit backtraces to a separate server, which may very well be anonymous (or optionally anonymous). See how Firefox sends crash reports, for example. But... don't hold your breath. -- Nicolás
