On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > wrote:
> > 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? > No, it will encourage them to be more careful with their email address online, just as is necessary with every other open source bugtracker on the planet. Why must you always look for ways to make it harder for people to participate in the project? Ian. -- 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/20100223/516c725e/attachment.html>
