Might be a good idea, but it's out of scope for us, but Infra would need to do this.
Maybe leave a comment on INFRA-21268 or create a new INFRA ticket for it? -Matthias On 1/7/21 9:14 AM, Adam Bellemare wrote: > If we do look to enable Captchas, I think it would be important that we > avoid corporate offerings (eg: Google's). > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 12:12 PM Govinda Sakhare <govindasakhar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> If it is possible, we should configure/enable Captcha to prevent automated >> spamming attacks. >> >> Thanks >> Govinda >> >> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:30 PM Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> This was a spamming attack. >>> >>> The user was blocked and the corresponding tickets were deleted. (Cf. >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-21268) >>> >>> The "problem" is, that anybody can create an Jira account and create >>> tickets. It's in the spirit of open source and the ASF to not lock down >>> Jira, to make it easy for people to report issues. >>> >>> The drawback is, that stuff like this can happen. It's easy to write a >>> bot to spam the Jira board... >>> >>> Because Jira is managed by the ASF infra-team, Kafka committers/PMC >>> cannot block users and thus it takes a little longer to react to an >>> issue like this, as we need to wait for the infra team to help out. >>> >>> >>> -Matthias >>> >>> >>> On 1/6/21 1:14 AM, M. Manna wrote: >>>> I had to register this as spam and block them. I couldn’t disable it >> from >>>> ASF JiRA. >>>> >>>> I’m also curious to know how/why such surge occurred. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 03:45, Luke Chen <show...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I received a lot of JIRA notification emails today, and they are all >>>>> titled: "Load Bug xxx" by Tim. >>>>> The bug content doesn't look like a real bug, they are like generated >> by >>>>> automation. >>>>> I'm wondering why that could happen? >>>>> Do we have any way to delete them all? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> Luke >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks & Regards, >> Govinda Sakhare. >> >
