On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:01:13 +0100
Aniruddha <mailingdotlist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 04-03-13 20:47, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>> That can be a solution. Creating a Fedora account though has more
>> requirements than an average forum. With most forums you only
>> register a username, email address and password. If we can do this
>> for ask Fedora with FAS it would make participating easier.
> It also requires a ton of work to police it because many people
> register various sock puppets and spam bots to fill it.
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A quick search show that most open source communities only require
minimal input. If they are able to solve this we surely can too.
Username
Full Name
email address
and a checkbox that they are over 13.
and a captcha.
So, really the only difference here is that we require full name.
Which mageia and suse also do.
I suppose we could look at making full name optional, but I don't see
the great burden there personally.
kevin