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
