Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]> writes: >> On the Gentoo side, we have had similar problems but it's not too >> bad. We have a Bugzilla extension [0] which bans URLs from new accounts for >> 24 hours: we could possibly bring that over here but exempt some >> sites like stackoverflow, standard reference sites, and godbolt. > > If we had that extension than I'd be happy to re-enable account > registration. I don't think spammers would bother waiting 24h and > coming back to post their links. > >> Another option would be to implement moderation in Bugzilla [1] which both >> Bugzilla instances would benefit from. IMO neither of these should be >> blockers to begin with, and we can revisit as we go if it turns out to >> not work out. > > Allowing moderation so that bugs and comments from new accounts aren't > visible until approved would be great, but I agree that doesn't need > to be a blocker. > I do think blocking URLs from new accounts should be considered a > blocker though.
I agree with Jonathan here, we should at least block URLs, and that should be fairly easy to do. As I mentioned in Prague, bug reports going missed due to registration requirements is not insignificant, so IMO we should do this change ASAP. -- Arsen Arsenović
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