Hello,
let me give a bit of perspective of “the ownCloud developers” here.
Indeed this forum is intended for general discussion around all ownCloud components and for community support that users need to setup their installations, understand concepts, ask for best practices and such.
It should not be used as a general place to dump “real” bug reports. Bug reports are a very important form of contribution to any project and involve real work as most of us have experienced already. “Dumping” a bug report can be considered an incomplete contribution that others need to pick up to give it a value - which rarely happens.
That is why we would ask everybody to post bug reports to the Github issues rather than leaving them here, as that is where they belong to. There we have better ways of guiding the whole process, following up and in general make the contribution valuable and successful.
We all know there is a grey zone. And I am sure if somebody shows up here not being able to work with Github for whatever reasons (and there are reasons…) we as a community will be able to help along.
I hope that makes sense for people,
Klaas