New issue tracker user registrations

[Joachim Dreimann <jo...@wandisco.com>]

We've had a lot of registrations on the issue tracker recently, and you may
recall that those users done have permissions to create, edit or comment on
anything by default.

I've done my best to establish which ones were genuine registrations (as
opposed to bots) and added those 11 users to the editor_group today (which
gives them those permissions). To follow up I've sent them the email you
see copied below to encourage them to contribute now that they can.

All their email addresses were bcc'ed for privacy reasons, but their
usernames are public (from the commits@ mailing list showing that they
signed up) so you can find them below:

otto, miron, marcomangiante, mhcox, leefay, mobigate, alek6cu, alvabai,
dconnell, habakuk, peterkur

Lets welcome them with open arms :)

(Oh and do speak up if a spambot got through!)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joachim Dreimann <jd...@apache.org>
Date: 8 April 2013 17:39
Subject: Welcome to Apache Bloodhound!
To: jdreimann@apache.org


You recently registered for an account on
http://issues.apache.org/bloodhound

I'm Joe, one of the contributors to Bloodhound and admin on that page. You
may have noticed that you weren't able to edit or create tickets after
registering - this was a precaution we set up to prevent spam.

I've now given you the permissions to:
- create and edit wiki pages
- create and edit tickets
- comment on tickets

You can further get involved by subscribing to our
dev@bloodhound.apache.orgmailing list. To subscribe, just send an
email to
dev-subscribe@bloodhound.apache.org.

We've got a guide for new contributors too, but don't hesitate to ask if
you've got any questions:
https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/wiki/BloodhoundContributing

See you on the mailing list,
Joe


-- 
Joe Dreimann | *User Experience Designer* | WANdisco<http://www.wandisco.com/>

@jdreimann <https://twitter.com/jdreimann>

Re: New issue tracker user registrations

[Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com>]

On 08.04.2013 18:56, Joachim Dreimann wrote:
> We've had a lot of registrations on the issue tracker recently, and you may
> recall that those users done have permissions to create, edit or comment on
> anything by default.
>
> I've done my best to establish which ones were genuine registrations (as
> opposed to bots) and added those 11 users to the editor_group today (which
> gives them those permissions). To follow up I've sent them the email you
> see copied below to encourage them to contribute now that they can.


Do we have to add a captcha on the registration page? As a bit of a
stopgap measure.

-- Brane

-- 
Branko Čibej
Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com

Re: New issue tracker user registrations

[Joachim Dreimann <jo...@wandisco.com>]

On 8 April 2013 18:45, Olemis Lang <ol...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/8/13, Joachim Dreimann <jo...@wandisco.com> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > All their email addresses were bcc'ed for privacy reasons, but their
> > usernames are public (from the commits@ mailing list showing that they
> > signed up) so you can find them below:
> >
> > otto, miron, marcomangiante, mhcox, leefay, mobigate, alek6cu, alvabai,
> > dconnell, habakuk, peterkur
> >
> > Lets welcome them with open arms :)
> >
>
> Thanks very much for this ... I've been waiting for this to happen
> since some time ago . We should be looking forward to make it easier
> for new users to participate
> :)
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Olemis.
>

I agree. I would like to give the editor_group permissions to new signups
with validated email addresses by default.

Currently I don't see evidence that we need a captcha. There just isn't the
volume to justify it.

-- 
Joe Dreimann | *User Experience Designer* | WANdisco<http://www.wandisco.com/>

@jdreimann <https://twitter.com/jdreimann>

Re: New issue tracker user registrations

[Olemis Lang <ol...@gmail.com>]

On 4/8/13, Joachim Dreimann <jo...@wandisco.com> wrote:
>
[...]
>
> All their email addresses were bcc'ed for privacy reasons, but their
> usernames are public (from the commits@ mailing list showing that they
> signed up) so you can find them below:
>
> otto, miron, marcomangiante, mhcox, leefay, mobigate, alek6cu, alvabai,
> dconnell, habakuk, peterkur
>
> Lets welcome them with open arms :)
>

Thanks very much for this ... I've been waiting for this to happen
since some time ago . We should be looking forward to make it easier
for new users to participate
:)

-- 
Regards,

Olemis.