In lieu the spammer case for our JIRA, I am proposing to create new list called issues@ to where ALL JIRA update emails will be sent.
Hopefully this will make dev@ list to be safe haven to have tech discussions. Thoughts? - Henry On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Kasper Sørensen < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
