Anshum, please add me as well. Thanks.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Anshum Gupta <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
>
> I've added you to the contributors group. You should be able to comment on
> JIRAs now.
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Ryan Josal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Woah, yeah, I have filed a few bugs as well as posted patches and
>> comments.  Indeed I don't seem to be able to comment anymore.  Anyone
>> want to add me (rjosal) to a role that can comment or create?
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, April 21, 2016, David Smiley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Wow!  My reading of this is that the general public (i.e. not
>>> committers) won't be able to really do anything other than view JIRA issues
>>> unless we expressly add individuals to a specific project group?  :-(
>>>  Clearly that sucks big time.  Is anyone reading this differently?
>>> Assuming this is true... at this point maybe there is nothing to do but
>>> wait until the inevitable requests come in for people to create/comment.
>>> Maybe send a message to the user lists?
>>>
>>> ~ David
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Gav <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:14 AM
>>> Subject: Jira Spam - And changes made as a result.
>>> To: [email protected] Infrastructure <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Apologies for notifying you after the fact.
>>>
>>> Earlier today (slowing down to a halt about 1/2 hr ago due to our
>>> changes) we had a
>>> big Spam attack directed at the ASF Jira instance.
>>>
>>> Many project were affected, including :-
>>>
>>> TM, ARROW ACCUMULO, ABDERA, JSPWIKI, QPIDIT, LOGCXX, HAWQ, AMQ, ATLAS,
>>> AIRFLOW, ACE, APEXCORE, RANGER and KYLIN .
>>>
>>> During the process we ended up banning 27 IP addresses , deleted well
>>> over 200 tickets, and about 2 dozen user accounts.
>>>
>>> The spammers were creating accounts using the normal system and going
>>> through the required captchas.
>>>
>>> In addition to the ban hammer and deletions and to prevent more spam
>>> coming in, we changed the 'Default Permissions Scheme' so that anyone in
>>> the 'jira-users' group are no longer allowed to 'Create' tickets and are no
>>> longer allowed to 'Comment' on any tickets.
>>>
>>> Obviously that affects genuine users as well as the spammers, we know
>>> that.
>>>
>>> Replacement auth instead of jira-users group now includes allowing those
>>> in the 'Administrator, PMC, Committer, Contributor and Developer' ROLES in
>>> jira.
>>>
>>> Projects would you please assist in making this work - anyone that is
>>> not in any of those roles for your project; and needs access to be able to
>>> create issues and comment, please do add their jira id to one of the
>>> available roles. (Let us know if you need assistance in this area)
>>>
>>> This is a short term solution. For the medium to long term we are
>>> working on providing LDAP authentication for Jira and Confluence through
>>> Atlassian Crowd (likley).
>>>
>>> If any projects are still being affected, please notify us as you may be
>>> using another permissions scheme to the one altered. Notify us via INFRA
>>> jira ticket or reply to this mail to [email protected] or join
>>> us on hipchat (https://www.hipchat.com/gIjVtYcNy)
>>>
>>> Any project seriously adversely impacted by our changes please do come
>>> talk to us and we'll see what we can work out.
>>>
>>> Thanks all for your patience and understanding.
>>>
>>> Gav... (ASF Infra)
>>> --
>>> Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker
>>> LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book:
>>> http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Anshum Gupta
>

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