Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

Hey all,

I am thinking that we should set our bug and patch trackers so that you have login in order to post. While I do want to get as many bug reports as possible, from what I have seen, the anonymous reports almost always need a follow-up and are almost never followed up on. Or the ones that are followed up on were posted by people who just forgot to login.

Whadaya think?

i'm not a big fan of that.

- for one thing, it discourages people to post bug reports. personally, i will not become a member of any portal (be it facebook or myspace or whatnot) just to tell someone that there product doesn't work.

- sourceforge now supports OpenID authentication. while this seems to be the solution to the problem (people don't really have to sign-up to post tickets in an authenticated way), it is actually not: people are technically authenticated, but from the ticket admin's point of view nothing changes (you don't know who posted; and it seems like the original poster is not included in the thread, so there is no follow up either)

- one possibility would be to have tickets that would require either authentication or a valid email address (which is not shown anywhere). this is not implemented at sourceforge, but one could file a feature request.

so please don't.

fgmasdr IOhannes