Hi all,

First of all: I hope you are still with us on the mailing list. If you
are, you have no doubt noticed a lot of unwanted spam activity on JIRA
and thus also on the mailing list today.

It happened even though the ASF JIRA was _already_ in a lockdown mode
due to spam on all the projects. The lockdown mode means that only
committers and admins etc. are allowed to create issues. Somehow the
spammers managed to circumvent this permission scheme for the
METAMODEL project. Infra is looking into how that could be...

A short term solution is now in place though: Our JIRA is for the
moment in complete read-only mode.

What does this mean for us? Here's my suggestion:
 * We cannot clean up your inbox for you. So delete the mails you got
today (except maybe this one :))
 * Infra will delete the issues on JIRA for us.
 * If you want to report a new issue or discuss/change an existing
issue - for the moment simply do this via email to this mailing list
([email protected])
 * If you have a patch that you want to share, GitHub and the
reviewboard are both still operational.
 * When we accept patches then make sure to update CHANGES.md. Since
JIRA is not useful right now, we will use CHANGES.md as our way of
tracking what has been done and then update JIRA when possible.

Should something like this ever happen again, then the ASF infra guys
on HipChat are nice and responsive. Just go to this URL and let them
know:
https://www.hipchat.com/gIjVtYcNy

Thank you all for your patience.

Best regards,
Kasper

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