On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:02 -0500, Gerard wrote:
Forcing the reporter to be a registered user is a good thing.
No, it's absolutely not.
I worked on a project for awhile where it seemed that every jerk would submit some sort of report. The reports were usually incomplete and since there were no accounts linked to the reports, there was no way to contact the OP. In my opinion, if the bug-reporter cannot take the time to register, then they can just keep their bug-reports to themselves.
You're saying "not anonymous reporter" == "registered user" which is not true at all. I'm fine with doing stuff via email, and I sometimes even sign up for bugzilla accounts, but mantis sometimes doesn't even let you *view* things without logging in via some strange guest account thingie. It's convoluted.
johannes