Ethereal-dev: RE: Bug trackers (was Re: [Ethereal-dev] Buildbot crash output)

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From: "Jacques, Olivier (OCBU-Test Infra)" <olivier.jacques@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 07:36:25 +0200
> That's one of the disadvantages of the SourceForge bug system 
> - it's the main one used for tcpdump and libpcap (there's a 
> "patches" mailing list for patches, but I don't follow it any 
> more, as it's 99.99999999999999% spam), and a number of bugs 
> are anonymous, so if I ask a question by adding a comment to 
> the bug, the person filing the bug doesn't see it unless they 
> go back and check it.

You can force users to authenticate on Sourceforge before sending bug
reports/patches/etc...
I do that for one of the project I maintain and I never had any spam.

Contact me if you want to know how to do that.

Olivier.