Re: bugs.php.net missing userid field...

[snip] > Unfortunately, that's sometimes not an acceptable option (or, it could be, > I just don't now it, or how). I just don't know how the bug reporting > system actually works. Maybe I'll have to do a cvs checkout tomorrow and > fix it. But &MAGIC_COOKIE=1 and '"Remember my login/password' checkbox" > will not do it. I will just go in and fix it. As I see it there are 3 simple fixes: 1.) Very simple Copy the bugs.php page Call the copy dev_bugs.php Have this copy default to the developers interface Have bugs.php default to the user interface 2.) Still Simple Add a few radio boxes under the 'Edit bug number' line. [Edit] bug number: [ ] Using [-] User Interface [ ] Developer 3.) Graceful Modify the existing authentication setup so that the user field is always present and accepts an email address. If the address ends in php.net, then remove @php.net from the login and use CVS login data. If not, then match the address against the address of the original poster and check the password set by the user when they submitted the bug report. Matching the email address of the user is not really good for anything. It is there for everyone to see in the initial report. However, if we decide to do anything with the email addresses later on, it is better to have people in the habit of having to validate them. I am leaning towards 1 today - I am feeling very lazy and tired. :) > Now, after saying what I said. > > Consider a situation, where I'm at a customers machine, fixing a bug, and > really fixing it. I might want to make a note that the problem is fixed > and how it was done, but I'm somewhere where I haven't got a personal (and > I'm definitely not going to checkout anything from cvs with someone elses > account with modification rights) login, and I'd like to note that the > bug will be fixed in exactly the way I did it (want to give myself and > the buglist some notion about it, in case a bus drives over me), and I > also don't want to leave any cookies on the customers machine. > > A lot of incomprehensible babble. But you'll have to excuse me today. I > went to my customary pub and heard that one of my friends died last night. My condolences! :( > Too many beers to think straight. - Zak