CTFE ^^ (pow)

[Seb]

On Friday, 23 March 2018 at 20:38:38 UTC, Manu wrote:
> 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.

Hold your breath - Vladimir is silently working on getting 
Mozilla's Bugzilla fork mainstream again.
Actually it's not so silent - the Mozilla people call his work 
"near-heroic efforts":

https://dylan.hardison.net/2018/03/18/bugzilla-harmony-news

Some pointers:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/bmo
http://dbugs.k3.1azy.net

And yes it will support OAuth 2.0 - but just GitHub Auth for the 
time being because that's the most important one. The full list 
is here:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/bugzilla-meta/blob/master/notes.org

You can join e.g. #dlang_org on Slack for more discussions about 
this.