From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tt47a-0001NC-5A; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:27:56 +0100 Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r09MCSan024316 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Wed, 9 Jan 2013 14:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from msp-dhcp16.wrs.com (172.25.34.16) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.318.4; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 14:12:28 -0800 Message-ID: <50EDEB4B.1020009@windriver.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:12:27 -0600 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom King References: <50EDE734.8060703@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [OE-core] locking down patchwork and wiki registrations X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:27:58 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > 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 > > _________________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.__openembedded.org > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/__cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/__openembedded-devel > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.__openembedded.org > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/__cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/__openembedded-core > > >