From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 44753 invoked by alias); 25 May 2017 20:16:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 44732 invoked by uid 89); 25 May 2017 20:16:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=periodically, bless, antispam, held X-HELO: sam.airs.com Received: from sam.airs.com (HELO sam.airs.com) (64.13.145.90) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 May 2017 20:16:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 1528 invoked by uid 10); 25 May 2017 20:16:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 16063 invoked by uid 500); 25 May 2017 20:16:10 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: carlos@redhat.com, dje.gcc@gmail.com, overseers@sourceware.org, joseph@codesourcery.com From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Joseph Myers Cc: Carlos O'Donell , David Edelsohn , Overseers Subject: Re: GCC Bugzilla accounts References: <1f9b4a90-04ad-d0c8-cb2f-13ed34ce96f2@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 20:16:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Joseph Myers's message of "Thu, 25 May 2017 16:40:56 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-q2/txt/msg00086.txt.bz2 Joseph Myers writes: > On Thu, 25 May 2017, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > >> Instead there we allow users to create all of their own accounts, but by >> default you don't get editbugs. You have to have someone grant you editbugs, >> and that can be done by anyone else who previously had editbugs, so you can >> just email the list and someone will quickly bless you. >> >> Is the account creation still an anti-spam tactic? >> >> I think it's a terrible one, the editbugs removal seems to have worked much >> better. Now spammers cant change any existing bugs. They can still file >> new bugs, which we can zap entirely. > > Spammers were filing new spam bugs about as fast as contrib/mark_spam.py > could mark them as spam. Personally, I think the ideal approach would be if bugzilla supported a moderation strategy. Anybody could create an account, but the first time they filed a bug, or commented on a bug, their change would be held for moderation. If a moderator approved a change, their subsequent changes would flow automatically. If the moderator blocked the change, the account would be disabled. Then we would only require a few people to periodically moderate new bugzilla users. But that is just a wish. I have no reason to believe that bugzilla supports this approach. Ian