From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: Tom King <ka6sox@gmail.com>
Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org,
openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [oe] locking down patchwork and wiki registrations
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:12:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EDEB4B.1020009@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHQecY7BzBxTJYbuXs_8qoPdeh-cfz3F4x186L1DqAgt-Lz95w@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/9/13 3:58 PM, Tom King wrote:
> There are many of us who watch and can do this (at least 10 "administrators")
As long as requests can avoid a black hole, I don't have any other concerns with
manual registration.
--Mark
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com
> <mailto:mark.hatle@windriver.com>> wrote:
>
> On 1/9/13 9:59 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We receive tonne of spam in form of registrations everyday and some of
> bots have become smarted that they even activate their
> profiles. It has to be manually deleted and its tedious. I would
> therefore like to remove the 'register' link from pw front page
> that will stop the spam as I have already experimented with it a bit.
>
> Same is also true for wiki. We should make the registration process to
> be manual since that will put some end to registration spam.
>
> I am open to other ideas to stop spam without locking registrations.
>
> The registrations will still happen but should be done manually.
>
>
> I don't have any problem w/ manual registration, but I do have a concern.
> Manual registration often times becomes a black hole for people. You send
> off a request to get registered and if the one person, who in their spare
> time monitors it happens to be on vacation for three weeks it just disappears.
>
> If we do this, we need to come up with a way that a group of people can add
> to the registered users. Perhaps even allowing all registered e.V. members
> to do it?
>
> --Mark
>
> Thanks
> -Khem
>
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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: Tom King <ka6sox@gmail.com>
Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org,
openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OE-core] locking down patchwork and wiki registrations
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:12:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EDEB4B.1020009@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHQecY7BzBxTJYbuXs_8qoPdeh-cfz3F4x186L1DqAgt-Lz95w@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/9/13 3:58 PM, Tom King wrote:
> There are many of us who watch and can do this (at least 10 "administrators")
As long as requests can avoid a black hole, I don't have any other concerns with
manual registration.
--Mark
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com
> <mailto:mark.hatle@windriver.com>> wrote:
>
> On 1/9/13 9:59 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We receive tonne of spam in form of registrations everyday and some of
> bots have become smarted that they even activate their
> profiles. It has to be manually deleted and its tedious. I would
> therefore like to remove the 'register' link from pw front page
> that will stop the spam as I have already experimented with it a bit.
>
> Same is also true for wiki. We should make the registration process to
> be manual since that will put some end to registration spam.
>
> I am open to other ideas to stop spam without locking registrations.
>
> The registrations will still happen but should be done manually.
>
>
> I don't have any problem w/ manual registration, but I do have a concern.
> Manual registration often times becomes a black hole for people. You send
> off a request to get registered and if the one person, who in their spare
> time monitors it happens to be on vacation for three weeks it just disappears.
>
> If we do this, we need to come up with a way that a group of people can add
> to the registered users. Perhaps even allowing all registered e.V. members
> to do it?
>
> --Mark
>
> Thanks
> -Khem
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-09 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-09 15:59 locking down patchwork and wiki registrations Khem Raj
2013-01-09 21:55 ` [oe] " Mark Hatle
2013-01-09 21:55 ` Mark Hatle
2013-01-09 21:58 ` [oe] " Tom King
2013-01-09 21:58 ` [OE-core] " Tom King
2013-01-09 22:12 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2013-01-09 22:12 ` Mark Hatle
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