Mark Cave-Ayland <[email protected]> writes: > On 24/09/2026 14:56, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
[...] >> + Ignoring any of the above rules may lead to the bugs being >> + mass closed without further triage, even if valid reports. >> + In cases where the filing limits are grossly exceeded, >> + the reporter's GitLab account may be reported for abuse >> + (spam), potentially leading to termination. > > Do we know if people are doing this purely for the recognition? Perhaps we > could suggest that if these rules are broken, all bug reports submitted by > the reporter will remain private (to reporters) on GitLab: if a maintainer > decides to fix a reported bug at their discretion, the original reporter will > not be credited in the commit message. Reducing the reward might be a possible partial replacement for friction. However, to not give credit for a bug we first need to fix the bug. This has turned out to be pretty much infeasible in the cases covered by the proposed policy. [...]
