And it seems there's a bit more spam coming through the filters now.
I'm on the infra chat to try and do something about it.

2016-05-12 10:11 GMT-07:00 Kasper Sørensen <[email protected]>:
> 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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