On Fri, 7 May 2004, Casey Duncan wrote: > On Fri, 07 May 2004 09:56:45 +0100 > Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tim Peters wrote: > > > > > While that *should* be a good example, it isn't: I only knew that > > > bug existed because someone closed it on Bug Day (and I'm subscribed > > > to the Collectors, and read the email they generate). > > > > *bangs head against desk* > > > > > Some bugs are so vaguely described nobody could guess -- and when > > > they're anonymous too, there's no effective way to get more info. > > > Those ought to be closed. > > > > Indeed. > > > > How about removing the ability for people to post bugs withotu > > specifying n email address? And, if they do specify an email address, > > using that to contact them by sending notification mails to it? > > No, some very valuable bugs are submitted anonymously. People can be > very paranoid (rightly) about their privacy. We do want to encourage bug > submissions even if that means more noise.
Right. The business rationale for allowing anonymous postings was "it's kinda bogus to require someone to become a member of the community in order to do the community the favor of submitting a bug report." > AFAIK the collector does mail the poster on state change if they have an > email address. I think that's right. I worried a little bit about the potential for mischief, but not much, and it hasn't proved to be a problem. > > For all I know, this happens already, but people don't perceive it as > > happening so the ythink "anonymous" bug postings will never be heard > > from and so close them straight away as "anonymous, therefor we don't > > care" > > Nope, many times we do care. But when we don't we will close them. > > To be clear: big -1 on restricting anonymous posting I don't think non-member posting is going to be restricted. Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )