[GNC] Documenting new Bugzilla restriction

[Matt McCutchen]

OK, I updated the wiki.  Thanks John (and whoever approved my account).

I would love to see the policy changed to at least allow users to view
individual bug report pages without logging in and allow search engines
to index them again, but I don't know what obstacles there are to
supporting that without the server getting overloaded again.  I
understand the change is very new and I trust you all will make an
appropriate decision based on the feedback you receive and the
availability of people to work on it; it's not my place as someone
minimally involved with the project to push for anything.  Hence I kept
the wiki factual and didn't promise anything.

FWIW, I can sympathize: Back in June 2024, bots were overloading the
gitweb repository viewer on my personal web site.  I had limited energy
to deal with it at the time, so I just shut gitweb down completely,
maintaining "git clone" access.  I think most of the load was from bots
performing computationally expensive queries with every possible
combination of parameters, and I hoped I could safely restore the
ability to just view the latest versions of files, but with the
relatively low traffic that my web site gets, so far I haven't able to
justify the work to implement that.

Matt

On Mon, 2025-09-01 at 16:58 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
> Sure. Even wanting to fix a typo is sufficient. We’re mostly trying
> to weed out spammers and people who think they need a wiki account to
> use GnuCash.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> > On Sep 1, 2025, at 15:16, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 07:52 +1000, David H wrote:
> > > Read the post at
> > > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2025-September/117417.html
> > > for the reasons behind the bugzilla login.
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointer.  I guess that was too recent to come up in my
> > web search.  It didn't cross my mind that the change could be that
> > recent.
> > 
> > I think it would be helpful to document the rationale for the new
> > policy on https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla .  I would be happy to
> > write the text, but am I justified in requesting a wiki account just
> > for that?
> > 
> > Matt