Login for bug reporting

[Christoph Cullmann]

> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> wrote:
> > Onsdag den 6. februar 2013 22:20:07 skrev Frank Reininghaus:
> >
> > considering that we get lots of duplicates for any reproducible
> > bug, my
> > impression is actually not that there are to many obstacles in the
> > bug
> > reporting process. Providing any kind of "contact me via
> > email/Facebook"
> > channel will only make it worse. I'm already spending a lot of time
> > marking
> > reports as duplicate/invalid or telling people that reporting bugs
> > for KDE
> > 4.8 or earlier is not quite as useful as they think. Please do not
> > make it
> > worse by lowering the bug reporting barriers.
> >
> >
> >
> > How would the demand for having an account lower the amount of
> > duplicates?
> 
> The other way round: we already have a lot of duplicates with the
> current system, if the reports don't have to make an account anymore
> we would get even more useless reports.
Beside,

does the account generation not at least validate the E-Mail address, or?

I mean, I have nothing against allowing people to login with their Google account or whatever
if that is possible, but I would not like to see bug reports by <idontcare at lala.org>.

Greetings
Christoph

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