On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a known problem. > > We solved this before by adding the 'jira-users' group to the Contributor > role. However I had to recently remove it because it allows the spammers > attacking Apache's JIRA to open issues with any new user they've signed up > for the purpose. > > Infrastructure is working on a long term solution for the problem we are > having with spam attack on our JIRA instance. I don't have an ETA. > > One thing we can try is removing folks from the current Contributors list > who haven't been active for a while to make room for new entries. > > > I have been doing the above. Adding the user's JIRA name seems to work though JIRA says it does not (trick from Busbey). St.Ack > > On May 26, 2016, at 10:48 PM, Gary Helmling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I can't seem to add new contributors to JIRA. Going to the admin page > and > > editing the members of the contributors role, JIRA just displays the > > message "The JIRA server could not be contacted". This shows up for > > type-ahead or just trying to paste in the username. > > > > Is anyone else able to make this work? >
