On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM Sam James via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > This has come up on IRC a few times. I think we should re-enable > self-account signup on Bugzilla. > > Andrea and I at least have seen people put off by having to email to get > an account and they end up just not filing a bug at all and only > complaining on social media, or not even that.
I am still waiting on this whole miscompile bug with openssl and GCC 16+ on aarch64 from the curl folks. Still not seen it (or maybe it was an openssl issue in the end). > > I did volunteer along with Arsen to help with the account requests but I > don't believe this handles the problem in full. I myself have been put > off when I have to email to get an account on someone's self-hosted > gitlab. I agree. > > I already read most Bugzilla activity and I'm happy to tag comments as > spam and ban accounts. Likewise with respect to all of bugzilla activity when I am not busy. Even the recent bug reports have been great (some even have the known to work and known to fail filled in which is super nice). > > 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. Agreed. I don't know bugzilla enough to be able to help implement this though. > > 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. Likewise. Both are good ideas but I definitely not the person who can help out here though. Thanks. Andrea > > [0] https://sourceware.org/PR32270 > [1] > https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/[email protected]/T/#u > > thanks, > sam
