[Qgis-psc] spam in Redmine :-(

[Nyall Dawson]

On 1 December 2017 at 06:30, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
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> I have a daft idea (might not work well for really critical issues where QGIS itself won’t run). Why not make the sign up process something you have to do from within QGIS. That way we know that the sign up ‘hoop’  is at least accessible to every one of our users. Once they are signed up they can use any browser to do the next bit. It could be done by perhaps checking for our own custom user agent or something. I don’t know enough ruby to usefully be able to actually implement that - though maybe it could be handled by some apache configs that check that if the url is the sign up page they user agent must be QGIS. Anyway just tossing an idea in the air here….
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Happy to see this being discussed again. If it's a point of contention
or stress we need to get it sorted.

My 2c:

I don't think we'll be able to resolve this discussion until we decide
on priorities:

Is it more important to have more users submit bugs and deal with
spam, OR have less bugs and no spam?

I don't think anyone can reasonably argue that the mantra doesn't
cause too much work for some users, and we WILL get less bug reports
if it's resurrected. We need to decide on our priority before we can
have a sensible debate about the best approach.

Nyall