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It's not optimal, but it's certainly allowed/ok, and it's far better than NOT posting that in the bugreport forum.

Proper disclosure takes effort. The product owner can offer bounties to motivate others to make that effort for them. But if you can't/won't spend that effort, then it's still better to publish the bug than not publish it.

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I agree proper disclosure take effort but even if he was to send them the very same text privately instead of posting it to the bug tracker it would have been better.

Maybe if it's only about getting some bug fixed as soon as possible. But I'd say communicating the "MongoDB is terrible" part of it to the public is pretty valuable too. Because nice to know and the hype doesn't mention that so much.

I'm sure we can come up with a best way to go about things. I'm not really cool with the "oh Mike" part of it. But I think it's mostly okayish. Certainly a lot more okay than the bug.

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