If instructors are going to ask their students to do this, they need to make sure they are doing so meaningfully. At Mozilla we can tell when each semester beg

If instructors are going to ask their students to do this, they need to make sure they are doing so meaningfully. At Mozilla we can tell when each semester begins because our bug tracker receives an influx of bogus bugs that were obviously filed by students who were asked to do so as part of an assignment.