why must users create accounts merely to submit bugs

[Ian Jackson]

Brad Bollenbach writes ("Re: why must users create accounts merely to submit bugs"):
> 5. After submitting, you are told that you will receive an email to
> confirm your contact address.
> 
> 6. You open the email, click the URL in it, and are shown a page saying,
> "Thank you for confirming your contact information! Your bug has been
> reported as _bug #42_. If you'd like, you can now easily _register a
> Launchpad account_ using your confirmed contact information."
> 
> This saves you time by not breaking your bug reporting workflow to have
> to first go off and register, and also gives developers the confidence
> to know they're not getting a flood of bug reports from V 1 a g ra
> companies and users that they can't get in contact with.
> 
> Thoughts?

This is a reasonable approach, and you can do it for email submissions
too.

The email that you send out should NOT contain the full bug report
contents to avoid this facility being useful for spam relay.

But, the full bug report contents SHOULD be discoverable somehow even
if not confirmed, so that if someone notices or realises that they
gave an incorrect email address, there should be a way for them to
find their previous report and change the address.

Ian.