This is Google's internal company wide issue tracker exposed to the public [0]. It was built requiring sign on because that is the default way a mature company

This is Google's internal company wide issue tracker exposed to the public [0]. It was built requiring sign on because that is the default way a mature company builds tools so it can properly handle authz and authn. My guess is nobody in that management chain cares enough to go through the effort of getting a mostly internal and collaborators system working without any auth. 0 - https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker