Hi,
I fully understand your frustration with all this - you have a bug and it's annoying and creating bugzilla accounts all over the internet is indeed not a good way to do things. Unfortunately bugzilla is the standard, and we don't have the manpower to write our own, nor do the freedesktop.org admins (who's infrastructure we're using, and who are all volunteers) have time to transition to other systems.
I mean, no clue about the funding situation, but how about Intel throwing some money at this?
Also we're positively flooded in bug reports and patch mails (100-200 mails/day on intel-gfx, probably 100 new bugs/months in bugzilla), and we do expect reporters to e.g. be able to install from source, provide logs and tons of other things. If creating an account is too much work, then it's much better to file with someone else who takes care of the triaging for you (distro or similar), or hire a contractor to fix your problem for you (there are tons). Bug reports on the m-l that aren't resolved immediately by pointing at an existing patch are pretty much guaranteed to get lost.
Again, I fully understand your frustration, but please also take into account the constraints on our side.
Well, you asked that I try the nightly tree because you thought that bug should be fixed. So I did, not knowing what I was signing up for. I guess I'll just forget about it then.
I expect that the technical discussion on the bug itself will continue in bugzilla. And of course if you want to improve this, help with bug triaging or anything else then that's very much welcome, but complaining that there's not an endless supply of free labour that makes everything work perfectly on both sides is not productive.
I'm more getting the impression that it's systematically broken with no incentive to fix it as it's somebody else's problem?
Regards, Florian