The ASF has been seeing an increase in spam recently so we've been figuring out how to best deal with it. The Metamodel JIRA got hit with around 800 spam tickets which I've removed and temporarily locked down in Read Only mode. I've changed the permissions for posting and now believe it to be correctly configured so I'm switching it back over to allow users in Contributors, Committers, Admins and PMCs to post.
If you have any questions feel free to e-mail or get in touch with us on Hipchat #asfinfra at http://infra.chat Cheers, -Pono
