Bugtracking software gripes

31 January 2010, 21:00

Message on signing up a new account in Bugzilla 3.4.4:

PRIVACY NOTICE: Bugzilla is an open bug tracking system. Activity on most bugs, including email addresses, will be visible to the public. We recommend using a secondary account or free web email service (such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or similar) to avoid receiving spam at your primary email address.

OR, why not change Bugzilla accounts to have usernames, so users’ email addresses don’t need to be exposed to the world, like every other web-based software in the world??

RT doesn’t let you create accounts via the web interface by default.

Mantis doesn’t have any kind of report/summary in the core product at all.

If you aren’t logged in, Trac gives no indication of how to add a new bug, and it attracts a bucketload of spam.

I would have thought these things would have been figured out by now?!

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