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RE: What is wrong with Bugzilla?
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:22:11 -0400
- Subject: RE: What is wrong with Bugzilla?
- References: <SERRANOUHbY6OISo1WY00000202@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 18:12 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Daniel Berlin
> >Sent: 31 May 2005 18:00
>
> > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 17:52 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> >> ----Original Message----
> >>> From: Russ Allbery
> >>> Sent: 31 May 2005 04:51
>
> >>> There are many on-line newspapers that I refuse to read articles from,
> >>> for example, because I don't want to create an account. That creates a
> >>> piece of authorization out there that I have to record a password for
> >>> and that I'm to some degree responsible for.
>
> >> Whenever I come across one of those interfaces, I test it to see if
> >> it'll let me create an account called 'guest' with password 'guest'. (I
> >> believe in keeping the old net.traditions alive!) If it wants an email
> >> address, I use 'guest@example.org'.
>
> > And then if we need more info for your bug report, and can't reach you,
> > we'll simply close it.
>
> Oh, really?
> At precisely *which* on-line newspaper site do you expect to find me
> entering gcc bug reports?
I thought you were generalizing "those interfaces" to include bugzilla,
which was the original topic of discussion :)
> I had an even stupider version of this whole debate a little while ago on
> IIRC the binutils mailing list, where someone refused to enter a bug report
> into bugzilla because it was going to set a cookie and they thought that it
> was somehow sinister.
It's completely sinister.
We store all your info in there including YOUR QUERY SORT ORDER!
:)