On 10/25/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/24/06, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been going through and mercilessly deleting all spam tickets and
> comments, using a script I wrote that reverts changes. (I submitted it
> to Trac's Trac here: http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/3641 .) Ideally
> we'd have a way to do that in a distributed way for trusted users --
> any ideas?

I had noticed that some spam was magickally disappearing. Regarding the script:
- emails are still sent out to those listed on the CC (which is then
confusing because the ticket doesn't appear to have changed)
- the 'last modified' date isn't reverted when the spam is removed.
E.g., ticket 1330 is 'last modified 6 hours ago, last comment in
August.

Providing a kill button for trusted users is one approach, but IMHO
manually reverting spam is a stopgap measure at best.

> Also, I've been mulling over the idea of requiring an account signup
> in order to post tickets and comments. Would that be worth the pain?

IMHO, yes. Firstly, it kills the spam problem (or at least makes it
easier to remove any spam that gets through the registration net).
Secondly, it improves the quality of the tickets, because every ticket
can be traced back to a specific user.

If we're going to start messing with the ticket system, a general
review of ticket lifecycle procedures is probably worthwhile. The idea
of a triage team was floated recently; I have a few other ideas that I
would like to see implemented which would help me deal with tickets
(mostly relating to default ticket ownership and restricting
modification permissions). If there is interest in larger scale
change, I'll knock out some discussion points.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

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