CTFE ^^ (pow)

[Manu]

On 23 March 2018 at 12:25, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Friday, March 23, 2018 12:13:58 Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 23 March 2018 at 12:02, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
>>
>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> > On 3/23/2018 11:14 AM, Manu wrote:
>> >> This happened to me again on Tuesday this week...
>> >
>> > All bugzilla requires is a name and a password. It does not do any
>> > verification. Heck, just type in xxx yyy and it'll work. This trivial
>> > bit of effort makes it effective in preventing troll posts :-)
>>
>> Well, my colleague isn't a troll. A genuinely interested party, but
>> he's not gonna go out of his way for it. I can't control the natural
>> reaction that most people have to being confronted with a registration
>> page.
>> I'd suggest openauth, and people using their github accounts; I think
>> that's what people expect. I mean, most people just expect the bug
>> tracker to BE on github ;)
>
> Really? I've dealt with relatively few projects that use github as a bug
> tracker, and it's been my experience that most anything that's really
> serious has its own bugtracker (usually some form of bugzilla) - though most
> such projects predate github by a long shot. I'd think that signing up for a
> bugtracker would be par for the course and that if anything, the fact that a
> project was using github issues instead of its own bugtracker would imply
> that it was small, which doesn't necessarily give a good impression -
> especially for a compiler.
>
> And with how simplistic github issues are in comparison to bugzilla, I don't
> know why you'd want to use it other than the fact that you don't have to go
> to the effort of setting up your own bugzilla. I'd certainly hate to see us
> switch to github issues just because a few folks weren't willing to sign up
> for a bugzilla account, though for whatever reason, some folks keep pushing
> for us to switch over.

I'm not suggesting switch to github. I've never suggested that. I
understand it's inferior.
I'm suggesting supporting openauth.