gregory p smith amuhkryptoorg sun may 4 2008 936 guido van rossum wrote sun may 4 2008 258 stefan behnel wrote personally would consider following sufficient 1 people authenticated underlying vcs ie project members may post public comments comment comments tell authenticate svn project using http 2 anonymous users post comments wont become publicly visible authenticated user acknowledges comments work design dont understand authenticated user acknowledge anonymous comment isnt publicly visible also afaik bug tracker doesnt support anonymous comments either dont think important use case rather svn authentication suggest piggybacking top bug trackers authentication integration think aim anyways keep nogoogleaccount fear mongers happy code comments bug comments today require svn commit access anyways expect someone else may implement code gps fri 08 aug 2008 032920 0700 pythondev invitation try open source code review tool