Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Filing bugs for haskell packages

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 8 February 2014 09:59, Gershom Bazerman <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/7/14, 5:42 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>
>> The problem with being about to raise a ticket without creating an account
>> is spam. Lots of it and its generated by automated tools.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Folks have no idea how much spam we filter on the various haskell
> infrastructure things, be they wikis or tracs or email lists. We
> accidentally opened the lists up to unregistered email and got a wave of
> spam there too, immediately.
>
> Whatever we do, it'll need to require registration, whether its sticking
> with libraries@ as a place to report bugs, or doing something else...

As an alternative, maybe having a "report bug" page which doesn't
require registration but instead uses a CAPTCHA or something to
prevent bots?

>
> --Gershom
>
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