Anonymous Bug reports and feature requests are a bad idea.
There are many anonymous bug reports and feature requests that are poorly explained some with no more than a summary and no description whatsoever.
Without someone to follow up and provide a more detailed description I think these reports only waste people time. Many of the requests are wishlists, rather than specific enhancment requests. There are inevitably duplicate or overlapping reports.
Vague suggestions and requests should be directed to the user list so that we at least have a contact address and can get people to clarify what they mean. If the suggestions are good and users are still unwilling to register to file a bug report some one else will be willing to put their name to the report.
Openness is good up to a point but I think a minimum barrier is necessary, and that reporters are need to put their name to a report and take some responsibility and show they care about a feature before developers expecting developers to spend their time on it. I dont believe that many people are looking at the request tracker and it is difficult to manage so many vague reports.
I think the system needs to be changed to require people to log in before posting feature requests and bug reports.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/proj/Inkscape/