[MonoDevelop] Requirement to register at Novell considered harmful

[Lluis Sanchez]

El dt 20 de 11 del 2007 a les 10:18 -0600, en/na Jerome Haltom va
escriure:
> I agree with this. This needs to be made easier.
> 
> I recently tried to get a co-employee of mine to set up an account, and
> felt like crap wasting his time filling in personal information for
> something that should be much easier. There should be ZERO barriers to
> contribute to an open source project.

The page for creating a new account linked in MD's contact page
(http://www.monodevelop.com/Help_%26_Contact) makes creating an account
much easier. You don't need to enter all that personal info.

> 
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:51 +0100, Szczepan Hołyszewski wrote:
> > The requirement of a full blown registration at Novell is an entry barrier for 
> > many people who JustWantToReportABug(TM). The registration form demands 
> > INSANE amount of personal information (street address, phone), and there is 
> > no link to the privacy policy on the registration form. The validation code 
> > arrives with a lag of many hours. Considering all this, I believe that 
> > relocating the bugtracker away from Novell would substabtially improve bug 
> > reporting feedback.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Szczepan Holyszewski
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