The wave of spam on JIRA has become a huge burden on the infrastructure
team with thousands of junk accounts per year.
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/jira-public-signup-disabled
More on infrasturcture@ (member only).
Existing JIRA accounts are not affected.
New JIRA accounts now need a PMC member to ask for it.
https://selfserve.apache.org/
and we have to validate the address.
The front of JIRA says:
"""
Note that public signup for this Jira instance is disabled. You must
contact private@PROJECT_ID.apache.org mailing list and provide your
preferred username, display name and email address."
"""
The blog says:
"""
Projects are encouraged but not required to create a dedicated private
mailing list where users can email to ask for an account.
"""
We seem to have switched to GH issues so I'm guessing we'll get few
genuine JIRA account requests.
So, for now, the "private@" route, and if that does not work out, get a
mailing list or what becomes the norm across other projects.
Andy
