[Qgis-psc] spam in Redmine :-(

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Hi,

btw the biggest problem I see in submitting bugs from within QGIS is that
the user would not be able to submit a bug like "QGIS does not start", or
to submit a bug from a different machine where QGIS is not installed.


Btw a custom user-agent can be easily set up in QgsNetworkAccessManager.



On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thanks for your comments Nyall, Nathan and Matthias. It seems that the
> user agent is rather easy to do:
>
> https://wiki.qt.io/How_to_set_user_agent_in_Qt_application
>
> So it should automatically add QGIS and the current version to the header.
> And for an apache rule we could use a regex like this on the redline signup
> page:
>
> https://serverfault.com/a/749446
>
> (Replacing SetEnvIfNoCase with SetEnvIfCase)
>
> I would propose that we try to build this quickly (sounds like a good use
> of QGIS funds??) and get it done as a feature freeze exception. Then we
> just need something on redline saying that you need to sign up from in QGIS.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 01 Dec 2017, at 11:37, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
>
>
> ​OR have users submit bugs easily AND have no spam. In case it wasnt clear
> above, my proposal above advocates ditching mantras in favour of a 'normal'
> sign up process​ but the process has to happen through a QGIS browser
> agent. I reckon that is a pretty low friction approach.
>
> WRT Nathan;s comment about GitHub, while I am +1 about using  github as an
> option to sign in, my experience is that signing up for github is just as
> obscure for 'normal' users as a mantra, so if we are going to make users
> sign up for one more thing, hub.qgis.org should be that thing.... In
> summary my preference is:
>
> * Make it convenient for *everyone* to file tickets
> * Kill the mantra - it is the most un-user friendly experience we could
> give people
> * Make the initial sign up happen through a browser embedded in QGIS to
> prevent spammers. Within that sign up:
>     * Support github authentication if we can to make it easy for geeks
>     * Support sign up through local user database in redmine still
>
>
> Thanks Tim,
> I have the same preferences,
>
> Having a painless option to signup through QGIS itself and thus make it
> less spam-prone sounds great.
>
> We probably still need a "classic" signup way through webpages for the "I
> can't signup because my QGIS crashes on start scenario" and that would be
> solved by the github, other oAuth or osgeo login.
>
> Regards
> Matthias
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