On Dec 3, 2006, at 11:38 PM, cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info wrote:

>>
>> They are different products and they really should each be  
>> evaluated on
>> their own merits.
>
> Regrettably, this seems to make the choice a bit more complex, as  
> opposed
> to easier :-(.
>
> Although the signup issue is making me bias towards Bugzilla...
>

What I've seen a lot of other places do is have a dedicated login for  
"anonymous" tickets, and disallow truly anonymous (ie, not logged in  
at all) activity other than reading.  they then post the id/password  
onto an internal page somewhere.  This keeps the bots out and lets  
the real folk in.

Also, cvstrac has a trivial challenge response (do a single-digit  
arithmetic) to keep the bots out when creating tickets (not sure  
about altering wiki pages).  Cvstrac also has another nifty little  
hack: it has a built-in honey pot link.  If you visit that link your  
IP is blocked from posting for X minutes.  That link is way up high  
so bots tend to visit it :-)


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