Rogier,

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Rogier wrote:
> I'd like to report a (probable) bug in GCC, but your bugzilla site 
> mentions that user account creation has been restricted, without 
> indication as to the reason and probable duration of the restriction.

we have been suffering from a massive spam attack, dummy accounts
being created, bugs with spam links posted, and our bug mailing list
and archives flooded.

I am not sure what the plan is to address that, but agree that putting
up a bit of an explanation would be helpful.  Frédéric, is this something
you can comment on?

> I'd appreciate if you could let me know what the cause of the problem 
> is, and whether creating a new account and sumbitting a bug will be 
> possible in the future. Alternatively, I'd also be happy to hear about 
> alternative methods, if any, that I could use to report the bug 
> instead.

If you send me, privately, the data you'd put into such a bug report,
I volunteer to help out and file the bug on your behalf and copy you.

Gerald