Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:58:58 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Ceri Davies" <setantae@submonkey.net>, "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>, "Jim Mock" <mij@soupnazi.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled. Message-ID: <005101c2e0f6$2aae2e30$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20030302162206.66969.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> <3E62440A.4010001@potentialtech.com> <20030302181204.GA32498@submonkey.net>
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> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:48:58PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > >>No, FreeBSD dislikes moronic skript kiddies spamming > > >>the PR database. > > > > > >OK, I'm screwed :(. It's difficult to find committers > > >interested in my ports (math/cad stuff) anyway. I > > >guess I'll just keep'em for myself for some more time. > > > > Or you could consider helping find a way to re-enable > > the www to send-pr while preventing script kiddies from > > abusing it. Why not have a "pr-moderator" for each category (i386, kern, doc, etc), who approves each incoming PR. Basically this person would act as a front-line defense against spammers, but it would also allow them to assign PRs to developers as they are submitted, rather than letting them sit in the PR database for weeks/months before anyone picks them up. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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