Hi Dennis, Dennis Lundberg wrote on Saturday, July 01, 2006 12:22 AM:
> Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Dennis, >> >> Dennis Lundberg wrote on Thursday, June 29, 2006 6:44 PM: [snip] >>> Here's a snippet from ASF JIRA frontpage: >>> >>> "Welcome to Apache's JIRA issue tracker! >>> >>> Anyone is free to find issues. You must register and login if you >>> want to create, comment, vote, or watch issues. Only developers can >>> edit, prioritize, schedule and resolve issues." >> >> The problem is the user experience. An anonymous user >> browsing e.g. SANDBOX can click "CREATE NEW ISSUE" and JIRA >> offers then a list of unrelated projects. In Bugzilla you >> could enter your bug report and you were requested to login >> committing the issue. But here the usder is stuck and does >> not know, why he suddenly does not find the project any >> longer. Not a single hint, that he must register. > > Aha, I misread your previous post. Now I found the correct > link. It is > "CREATE NEW ISSUE" right below the ASF logo. > > To me the problem is that some projects (well 6 of them > anyway) seem to > allow anonymous posting of issues. This is inconsistent to users. And they open up for JIRA spam. Avalon (RIP) / Excalibur projects were suffering a lot of those entries. > If we want users to log in before they post issues, and I > think we do, > then the user who clicks on the link mentioned above should > end up on a > page that tells the user to log in or create an account > before they can > create an issue. I'm sure if/how this can be accomplished though. This would be the best. > Or we can do like Codehaus [1] does - they have removed the "CREATE > NEW ISSUE" link completely. It will appear on every project if you > have logged in. > > [1] http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa At least an alternative and better compared to the current situation. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
