Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 21.11.2019 13:57, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > But, okay, we could also pre-create accounts for every email that has
> > ever graced our presence on Debbugs. Then the users could do password
> > recovery and voila.
>
> Hm...  I'm not sure I totally like that idea.  Creating accounts on
> behalf of other people seems...  coercive, somehow.

It's a frequent practice, but often a marketing move, so it might feel 
kind of dirty to us techies.

Then, and this is an option that will request less up-front effort, we 
can go with the "UFO" approach, and then anybody doing spelunking in the 
old issues would follow the link to the original report and directly 
email the author with a follow-up question (and ask them to register 
only then).