On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 9:36 PM Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > Happy new year! > > I have updated the project descriptions in gitlab and flyspray to > reflect where bugs should be opened and patches should be submitted. > ... > > Some time ago it was decided to migrate the pacman development from the > > Mailing > > List to the Gitlab instance hosted by Arch Linux. The pacman source has > > been ... > > > > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/ > ... It seems that submitting or commenting on an issue requires an accounts.archlinux.org sso login, which in turn requires two-factor authentication. Seems like a high bar for just submitting or commenting on a
bug. Accepting submissions from arbitrary unverified emails is a bit lax, but this seems a bit far in the other direction. In any case, it should probably be explained somewhere for folks who aren't active pacman developers. I'm not sure if there might be a way to make this easier. Perhaps there could be accounts without tfa that would not have access to various more critical operations? Perhaps a forums.archlinux.org account with a verified email could be used? On the plus side, even though the sso page you wind up at says that you must install an authenticator application on a mobile device, that isn't really the case. It seems that you can use any android device such as a tablet or a chromebook. Or, you can use oauthtool from the linux command line, and avoid the need for a separate device. -Jeff
