Right. IMO that's the simplest, best solution.

No it is the posts after that in support of his "mild teasing humor" statement that suck...

To everyone else my opinion is:

Bugzilla ain't freakin' "Facebook".
It is for serious reports from serious people, I have no problem with using my addy as I want a serious response to the dang bugs I report.

I also don't want the process ruined by anonymous, spammed bug reports. It is boring and tedious enough to manage the information I receive from this "anonymous" forum as it is.

I understood that the minute I crossed over from this forum and registered on the maemo.org side of the house.
Sooner or later ya got to grow up.

If you don't want your email addy displayed, simple fix: Register a throw away and change it to that on your user account page.

And for those piping up about legal requirements and whatnot... Good luck with that. What are you going to pay your lawyer with, karma?

I agree the standard MO response to "Feel Free to...(whatever)" can get a person riled up. Typically the first response to hearing that is well then "feel free to go... (whatever ) yourself".

...but it is what it is.

If you're serious about improving your device then participate and deal with it.
If not then feel free to....

Just when I thought we were done with pointless provocation.

If that one line is all that you got out my multi paragraph post then I guess you're the one that's not done.

This ridiculous debate has convinced me to leave maemo.org. I would like to delete my account. Please let me know who I should contact about this.

Somebody's trying to leave.

Smithers, get the dogs!

I hope you enjoyed the two months and thanks for all your valuable contributions
Ridicilous is only the assumption and naivety of the original poster who probably never used a bugtracker before and doesn't get the ideas of open source collaboration and teamwork, then people getting into privacy ranting mode (nobody posted your underwear pictures, but an email address useful for communication about specific problems where we share a common interest).
You know, some of us come from an age where E-Mail was all we had

The title of this thread could equally well have been "ZOMG! Bugzilla is using my email address as an email address, I might get email!"

Really, that's what it's for.

Just to clarify on anyone that was confused by this "you can't delete accounts". He's actually correct - deleting an account would break the referential integrity of the system. Wherever the account had been used there would be a back hole if it was completely deleted. The parser would error out when trying to construct the page from the database.

To be technically correct you should 'null out' all the data on the account - email address, etc. Depending on your view to data protection you could also null out all previous comments by that account (so they show as being made, but just as a blank).

Just have a single "Deleted user" account (with email notifications disabled), and merge any others into it when they ask to be deleted. There's scripts available for merging bugzilla accounts.