Re: [Gaim-cabal] pidgin.im jabber server questions

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:34:38 -0400, Daniel Atallah wrote
> In talking to Luke, he came up with the very reasonable requirement
> that users must be registered in order to file bugs and other tickets.

I'm probably in the minority, and I'll probably be overruled, but I don't like
requiring users to register in order to file bugs, patches, leave comments, or
modify the wiki.  I think it discourages people from contributing, and creates
a less-friendly culture.  I think the barrier to entry should be as low as
possible.

I know Adium had problems with spam on their trac.  My best suggestion for
counteracting that is to place a .htpasswd restriction over our entire trac
with a username/password of "gaimtrac/gaimtrac" or something, and put the
username in the auth message that prompts for the username and password.

-Mark