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Re: Reporting GCC bugs
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Torbjorn Granlund <tg at gmplib dot org>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:08:14 -0700
- Subject: Re: Reporting GCC bugs
- References: <86r4p766jh.fsf@shell.gmplib.org>
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Torbjorn Granlund <tg@gmplib.org> 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