Xaltlee's Journal: Slashdot Bug.

Okay, I found a bug in Slash. So I go to submit it. I type it up, good explanations 'n shit, all that crap. I make sure it's thorough, I go over it one more time. Hit submit. "You must log in." What? I don't have a Sourceforge account. Why would I want one just to submit a bug? I want nothing to do with Sourceforge! I don't even use it for downloading programs! God damn. It's... pretty friggin' ridiculous. So I saved the damned thing and emailed it to my home account. Signed up for a Sourceforge account. And now I'm over here to bitch about it.

People use such things to keep the levels of idiocy and noise in bug submissions down, but I say there has to be a better way. Not only is it inconvenient, it's completely tangental to what I'm trying to do. Validate my email address, maybe. Ask me to input a bunch of user info, and validate that. Require me to log into Slashdot so you know my user login, maybe, and can ban me from the site or whatever it is you editors do to punish people when they submit bad bug reports. But... get an account on Sourceforge? That's so out there it's breathtaking in its bureaucratic lack of sense to the average mundane, meaning me. And if there IS a good reason for a Sourceforge account to be required for a bug submission, then EXPLAIN THAT on the page before I see the bug submission, and include handy links from which I can sign up for an account, then send the bug in.

Rarrrgh. Rant done.