[Qgis-psc] spam in Redmine :-(

[Tim Sutton]

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 <http://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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Tim Sutton
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