On 11/06/2013 04:24 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
Quim Gil wrote:
On 11/06/2013 07:24 AM, Petr Bena wrote:
So that's why suddenly I started receiving these email requests :D
No, you are getting suddenly these emails from a group of students at http://foss.amrita.ac.in because a mentor told them to do so. We have explained the right process to them (asking in the bug report itself instead of sending private emails).
This makes no sense to me. The issue is the extra step altogether.
The issue is the extra step for newcomers vs the risk of many extra steps for a few etablished contributors if someone decides to abuse the feature, as it happened in the past. And my point is that I personally don't believe that such barrier is diminishing the volume of actual contributions we receive.
In order to get somewhere with this discussion, it would be useful to know the current practice of other free software projects, using Bugzilla or not. As a newcomer, can I assign bugs to myself in GNOME, KDE, Ubuntu, Debian... etc?
For what is worth the Bugzilla mainainers decided to set the extra step by default and they were puzzled when RobLa told them that we had removed it in our big project.