[SciPy-Dev] "Anonymous" bug reporting: useful?

[Frédéric Bastien]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Frédéric Bastien <nouiz at nouiz.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Andreas Hilboll <lists at hilboll.de> wrote:
>>>> I was wondering if it would be good if users could report bugs without
>>>> having to sign up for a Github account.  From a technical viewpoint,
>>>> this should be possible, using a dedicated email account, some
>>>> server-side scripting, and the Github API.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any feeling for how many bugs do not get reported because a
>>>> user doesn't want to go through the hassle of creating an account just
>>>> to report a bug?
>>>>
>>>> I have the feeling that it must be as simple as possible to report bugs.
>>>>  And having to create an account (be it at Github or by signing up for a
>>>> mailing list) is an obstacle to that.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts / ideas?
>>>
>>> I didn't realize that we had fixed all of the bugs that have already
>>> been reported and our volunteers are pining away without any work to
>>> do. ;-)
>>>
>>> More seriously, the problem has always been spam. Removing filters to
>>> lower the barrier for honest bug reports also removes the filters for
>>> much more spam. There are always tradeoffs, and I think we've settled
>>> on a reasonable one. If we were getting no bug reports, that would be
>>> a problem, but we're getting a few every day. That's a healthy amount.
>>
>> It is the first time I read that having bug report every few days is healthy :)
>
> Bugs are inevitable. Quality bug *reports* are not. :-)

that is sure! It is just the way I read it, I found that funny.

Fred