Re: GCC Bugzilla accounts

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 05/25/2017 12:26 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> I'd suggest replacing "Contact your administrator or the maintainer 
> (overseers@gcc.gnu.org) for information about creating an account. Please 
> press Back and try again." with something along the lines of "Contact 
> <address> to request an account.  You should receive a response within 24 
> hours.".  And the account creation form should not say you can create an 
> account through that form when you can't.

Why are we filtering account creation?

We stopped doing that in the default sourceware bugzilla configuration.

Instead there we allow users to create all of their own accounts, but by
default you don't get editbugs. You have to have someone grant you editbugs,
and that can be done by anyone else who previously had editbugs, so you can
just email the list and someone will quickly bless you.

Is the account creation still an anti-spam tactic?

I think it's a terrible one, the editbugs removal seems to have worked much
better. Now spammers cant change any existing bugs. They can still file
new bugs, which we can zap entirely.

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Cheers,
Carlos.