0002811: Anonymous mode issues - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0002811	mantisbt	bugtracker	public	2002-12-26 12:41	2004-02-06 16:15

Reporter	nepto	Assigned To	vboctor
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Platform	x86	OS	Windows 2000
Product Version	git trunk

Summary	0002811: Anonymous mode issues
Description	Current implementation of anonymous mode contains several problems, that should be solved. If anonymous mode is enabled, make autolog (do not display login screen, just go to the main page). If anonymous mode is enabled, make login link instad logout link. When anonymous enabled, do not print "assigned bugs" line under top menu. Disable bug monitoring on anonymous mode enabled.
Additional Information	I welcome curent anonymous mode implementation. It is much better than no implementation in the latest stable release (0.17.5?). But anyway, it must be improved in several ways. It will be rather good, if Mantis will go way of open source tracker for supporting open source projects and anonymous submitting is one from the important things. I can help with fixes and implementation. Nepto, <a href="http://nepto.sk/">http://nepto.sk/</a>
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nepto 2003-12-17 12:23 reporter ~0004820	Well, it seems that this report was forgotten even after Julian has assigned it. That's no problem, I know how busy people can became. I'm WILLING to solve all of these issue. I already did so in Dec/2002 and Jan/2003 (yeah, a year before), however my patches were not introduced and they became just archived in mailinglist (as other patches too). Just tell me, how you imagine anonymous users suppoer in Mantis, we can discuss and cosult the issue and finally implement it. I'm willing to do so, however I have no problem if someone other will make this. Just for imagination, you can look how we use Mantis on our Platon.SK website. http://platon.sk/projects/ Click on arbitrary project.

jfitzell 2003-12-17 22:02 reporter ~0004822	Yes, sorry - I got fulltime work and haven't had much time to spend on mantis. I should really assign my bugs to someone else in the meantime... I don't even remember specifically how I was planning on implementing this, except that I thought it was going to be easier once we'd started using the auth_api. I think what we were moving towards was authenticating actions, rather than pages - that way if you wanted anonymous users to be able to perform certain actions (might be viewing a bug, reporting a bug, etc...) you would just have to include a check for that in that auth function. But your best bet at this point is probably to start a discussion on the developers mailing list and get some consensus there. I'll try to participate in the discussion.

nepto 2004-01-23 14:31 reporter ~0004909	Can someone from the Mantis developers take care about this?

vboctor 2004-02-03 14:16 manager ~0004942	Nepto, can you upload your patches to this issue. I checked out your website and I like your handling for anonymous logins. If I get this soon, then I will put it in 0.18.1. Thanks for your help, and sorry for the delay.

nepto 2004-02-03 14:27 reporter ~0004944	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1469074&forum_id=3264 Please take a look also on the other patches from this month (December 2002), because almost all from them were skipped and ignored as well.

vboctor 2004-02-05 13:22 manager ~0004954	Fixed in CVS and will be available in next release. Thanks Nepto and sorry for the delay. If you find issues with the latest code, please let me know.