Re: GCC Bugzilla accounts

["Frédéric Buclin via overseers" <overseers@sourceware.org>]

Le 25. 05. 17 à 22:35, Gerald Pfeifer a écrit :
> Frédéric, I am not sure you still are available to help as you have
> in the past?  Is this something you see realistically?

Hi all,

I guess this discussion is happening again because you want me to remove
the restrictions for user account creation? :)

Bugzilla has no moderation support. And this is not something trivial to
implement, because the user may want to comment in a bug, or create a
new bug, or attach some file to a bug, etc... And then we must handle
messages displayed to the user explaining why his changes are in the
moderation queue and send notifications to admins (easy part), and store
moderated actions and data somewhere in the DB till an admin decides
what to do with them (hard part), etc...

It would be much easier to let the first action go through, and then put
the user account into a moderation list till an admin validates the user
account, but then you would have the same problems as described in bug
72856, see e.g. comment 6 [1].

You cannot expect upstream to do anything about it in the near future,
because the upstream project is in a semi-dead/broken state.

My original idea was to implement bug 72856 [1], but several voices were
against such an implementation. So I didn't investigate further.


[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72856


Frédéric