[rfc] bug handling priorities

[Martin Pool]

2009/5/29 Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>
>> Ben Finney writes:
>>  > On the other hand, [answers.launchpad.net] seems suitable only if
>>  > you want to restrict discussion to those who have a site-specific
>>  > account.
>>
>> C'mon, Ben, you know that is a technical restriction that is supposed
>> to be relaxed within a few months at the latest.
>
> Perhaps I didn't phrase that clearly enough to disambiguate from the
> authentication threads; this isn't a point about authentication.
>
> Note that I'm referring to the requirement to have a Launchpad account
> for participation in the Launchpad Answers system. Is that to be relaxed
> within a few months?

You will be able to ask a question if you have an openid url.  There
may be an email confirmation step before sending you regular mail; I
think that is reasonable because we need a loop back to answer the
question reliably and it would otherwise be a spam channel.  Whether
this amounts to creating an "account" is perhaps just a matter of
definition -- there is a row in the People table but not a mandatory
"create an account" form.  It will be similar to what is done on
identi.ca or dopplr.

Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting that questions by mail would not
be answered, of course they will be.  As will questions on irc.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>