Bug tracker accounts

[Steve Litt]

Pavel Sanda said on Thu, 14 Jul 2022 01:07:33 +0200

>Dear LyXers,
>
>we recently suffer massive spam abuse in our bug tracker. For the
>moment we disabled automatized account creation and removed approx.
>30k fake user accounts.

[snip]

>If new account needs to be (re)created, please send the request to
>mailling list and we'll do it for you until new solution is found
>(captcha/migration to different platform).

Or, how's this for a novel idea: How about discussing bugs on the
mailing list so that many eyes can effortlessly and immediately peruse
it and many voices can effortlessly narrow it down. This will weed out
the "defective user" caused bugs, and will produce a pinpoint accurate
symptom description for the overworked developer.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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