Re: Bug#75853: TONER CARTRIDGES
Expanding BTS infrastructure to enable removal of BTS entry
(posting-by-posting but not bug-report-number-by-number) by GPG signed
mail by the maintainer or DD will be a good idea, I think.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:06:06PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:52:30AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> > What about a web form, pointed to by bugs.debian.org? That would
> > provide an alternative to the reportbug- and E-mail client-challenged.
> > Heck, sometimes folks are just away from their Debian systems and mail
> > clients.
>
> I'd be afraid for the quality of bug reports if there was a web form,
> because then every idiot could use the BTS without even catching a glimpse
> at the documentation... sometimes, additional hurdles (like the requirement
> of having e-mail) are actually good :)
I agree here. At the same time, I think your objection to confirmation
mail is misguided.
No one is proposing every bug report to go through this process. You
are DD. System can be made to accept all DD mails. (I know spoofing
may become problem.) It looks to me that most good bug reports are from
DD.
If anyone post to the BTS first time, I do not think it is too intrusive
to send a confirmation to his mail address. This is one time thing.
Another idea is to tag those bug reports from unconfirmed source e-mail
address and remove them after a month or so.
Osamu
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