Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Freemyer wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jim Henderson wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:50:06 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> > >
> > > > > And actually, forum users also have to create an account - that
> > > > > same account is used for access to bugzilla - so in some ways, the
> > > > > forum users are one step further along in that process because
> > > > > they already have the account to create bugs.
> > > > That's perfect - there really should not be anything preventing an
> > > > ml-fora bi-gating then.
> > >
> > > You lost me here - I'm not sure how the login requirement for the
> > > forums relates to this.  Can you clarify what you mean?
> >
> > In my experience, the one thing that (sometimes/often) prevents such
> > a bi-gating of fora<>ml is the requirement that a forum poster be
> > subscribed to the mailing list.  However, when opensuse forum members
> > are required to be registered for access to bugzilla, those
> > registered could simply be allowed access by default, i.e. without
> > having to actively subscribe. It would take a little fiddling, but
> > nothing major.
>
> Per,
>
> Not sure what your saying still.
>
> If it is that all users with a novell account can access the forums
> and post, I think that is already the case.  I know I have on very
> rare occasion stumbled across a thread and participated.  I don't
> think I had to do anything special to make that happen.  (But I did
> have to monitor that thread for a while.  Or maybe I subscribed to the
> thread.  I don't recall and its been too long.)

Sorry about not being clear - my thinking is that in a bidirectionally
gated setup, the mailing list would be the master, everything else just
an interface (webfora, maybe nntp, carrier pigeons).  With the mailing
list being the master, posting something using one of the interfaces
would require an email-address already subscribed to the mailing list.
I thought this might be a bit of a hurdle for the regular forum user,
but with Jim Henderson saying that all forum users are registered for
bugzilla anyway, we could take care of that automagically by
subscribing all registered forum-users with the nomail option.
(fiddling required)



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Per Jessen, Zürich (14.8°C)

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