On Monday 22 February 2010 21:26:24 Christian Funder Sommerlund wrote: > Matthew Toseland skrev: > > 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. > > We really should not post unprotected mail addresses in the first place. > Nor IPs.
Isn't that what I just said? > > IMHO it is a loss that our bug tracker is not public viewable, and a > step in the wrong direction (as opposed to moving towards letting users > submit bugs without doing a full sign up). That is *DEFINITELY* the wrong direction. Intelligence reports are only useful if they are corroborated, which means they belong on uservoice, not on the bug tracker. Stuff on the bug tracker needs to either be: a) Reported by a user with an email address whom we can at least in theory contact, or b) Reported by a developer, possibly on the basis of intelligence reports. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100223/3ce4c559/attachment.pgp>
