On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Torbjorn Granlund <tg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I tried to report two gcc bugs today. I read the >> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/ page, and then clicked on the link for making >> the actual report. I was then--without motivation--requested to create >> an "account". >> >> I am not happy maintaining lots of "accounts" for this and that. Since >> there is no motivation whatsoever why an account would be needed, I will >> not create one, and will not send in any gcc bug reports for the time >> being. > > I'm certainly sorry to hear that you will not be reporting bugs for > GCC. However, we have had spam in bugzilla in the past, and it's a > real pain to deal with. It's even led us to being added to e-mail > blacklists, and cleaning that up was hours of my life that I will > never get back. Requiring an account with a valid e-mail address is > an unfortunate necessity on the current Internet, at least for a > popular and well-known site like gcc.gnu.org. I wish it were not so, > but the fault is not with the GCC project; it is with the spammers. > > Ian Captchas handle this problem decently. Yes, they can still be automated, but it'll take care of a huge amount. I share the OP's attitude. It's really annoying as a user to have to create a new account (and subsequently a new password that I won't remember) for every project out there that I find a bug on. At the very least, hooking up to the various single sign on services (OpenID) would be a big step forward.
