On Monday 22 February 2010 18:45:07 Ian Clarke wrote: > 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.
You don't think that a sudden rise in spam, googling your email address, finding it on our bug tracker because we forgot to click the "make private" button, would result in people becoming avenging angels who will tell all their friends that we are diabolical and hunt us for the rest of our lives? -------------- 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/20100223/3fb92910/attachment.pgp>
