Re: bug-buddy branched

[Heath Harrelson <heath pointedstick net>]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 08:19, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:08, Fernando Herrera wrote:
> ...
> > 	In the other hand, a good point of using http is that we can
> > requiere the user to have a valid bugzilla account... do we want this? 
> 
> I'd say not. A lot of non-bugzilla-users are very helpful when asked for
> further information by e-mail, but would not have reported the bug in
> the first place if they had to register first.

I tend to agree with Andrew on this.  It's sad that people find getting
a bugzilla account such a psychic barrier, but I don't think we would be
necessarily doing ourselves (or GNOME's users, for that matter) a favor
by limiting bug reports to registered users.

Allowing anonymous bug reports definitely has its drawbacks (thousands
of duplicates, bugs containing only "it crashed," etc.).  Nonetheless, I
think that more is gained by making it extremely easy to report bugs.

Heath