Re: Bug tracker accounts

2022-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 2022-07-20 at 14:49 +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > On 15/07/2022 23:16, Steve Litt wrote: > [...] > > Or, how's this for a novel idea: How about discussing bugs on the > > mailing list so that many eyes can effortlessly and immediately peruse > > it and many voices can effortlessly na

Re: Bug tracker accounts

2022-07-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
While deliberation on email lists are very helpful that just will not work for software development, not even in closed shops, but most certainly not in Open Source projects and large ones such as this. el On 15/07/2022 23:16, Steve Litt wrote: [...] Or, how's this for a novel idea: How about

Re: Bug tracker accounts

2022-07-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 15/07/2022 à 23:16, Steve Litt a écrit : Or, how's this for a novel idea: How about discussing bugs on the mailing list so that many eyes can effortlessly and immediately peruse it and many voices can effortlessly narrow it down. This will weed out the "defective user" caused bugs, and will p

Re: Bug tracker accounts

2022-07-15 Thread Steve Litt
Pavel Sanda said on Thu, 14 Jul 2022 01:07:33 +0200 >Dear LyXers, > >we recently suffer massive spam abuse in our bug tracker. For the >moment we disabled automatized account creation and removed approx. >30k fake user accounts. [snip] >If new account needs to be (re)created, please send the req

Bug tracker accounts

2022-07-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
Dear LyXers, we recently suffer massive spam abuse in our bug tracker. For the moment we disabled automatized account creation and removed approx. 30k fake user accounts. While we tried to avoid removal of legit accounts (by pairing to existing bug reports) some of this work was manual and could