On 28/05/2025 7:52 pm, Holger Levsen wrote:
It definitely attracts huge amounts of spam. I think at least asking people to verify their email address to see email address of maintainers is a reasonable limitation that can prevent spam to a large extent (at least to new email addresses of new users from this point). People can always contact maintainers via the bts, I don't think publishing the email address is necessary to be able to do that.Hi Julien, thanks and applause for this initiative of yours! I agree the bts could see several improvements..! On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 06:46:29PM +0200, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote:We would like debbugs to: 0. keep all the e-mail features it currently offers 1. process new requests and give feedback instantly 2. hide e-mail addresses from public (unauthenticated) web browsing 3. have a web UI that makes it possible to submit bugs, reply to bugs, manipulate bugs 4. have some GitLab (Salsa) integration 5. have better, restructured, simplified documentation with full examples 6. track merge requests.Most of these I also very much agree with, however I doubt that *we* want to hide e-mail addresses from public (unauthenticated) web browsing. In my book the open development model of Debian is tied to the fact that we the developers are responsible *and* reachable. Our users can see who made the distribution they are using. That is a feature. I've also seen very very few complaints about the fact that the BTS shows email addresses if submitters and contributors. And I'm definitly not aware that we identified this as a problem!
Also, I don't really see how to keep all the e-mail features it currently offers, while hiding email addresses. I quite often look up email addresses in bugs and contact people directly, definitly more than once per months.
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