A good reason, stopping spammers - but why not allow a generic (e.g. Google/Facebook/StackOverflow)/OpenID login? As the original poster of that thread, I don't like to have to keep track of accounts (and passwords) only for posting one bug.
Also, CAPTCHAs might be an option - or changing to a bug tracking system without the pitfalls of Bugzilla. best, -- Bruno Nery On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Oleg Endo <oleg.e...@t-online.de> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 13:22 -0800, Bruno Nery wrote: >> Twenty two might be a more manageable number, but still... why do we >> need an account to report a bug? > > This issue has been raised just recently on the gcc-help mailing list. > See the thread: > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2012-10/threads.html#00061 > > The answer to your question is in the first reply by Ian Lance Taylor. > > Cheers, > Oleg >
