On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Matthew Toseland < toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 20 February 2010 21:33:17 Christian Funder Sommerlund wrote: > > sbc @ #freenet noted this. This seems to be an upgrade mistake? Surely > > we should allow everyone to view the bug tracker, and not only people > > logged in? > > No. Bugs often contain things like email addresses which while not strictly > confidential can be of use to spammers. I agree we should always make them > private but sometimes we mess up and the damage is much less if we require > registration just to access the tracker. > Practically every other open source project on the planet (including all Google Code projects) make their bugtracker viewable without registration. I don't think there is anything sufficiently different about us that we should diverge from common practice in a way that inconveniences people as this does. -- Ian Clarke CEO, SenseArray Email: ian at sensearray.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100222/5633d6d4/attachment.html>
