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Wez Furlong

22 years ago

as a simple optimization, can we disallow requests with a single-word reason
from ever reaching the account request system?

Likewise, we can also do the same for the requests containing the word
"learn".

Any volunteers? :)

--Wez.

Olivier Hill

22 years ago

Wez Furlong wrote:

> as a simple optimization, can we disallow requests with a single-word reason
> from ever reaching the account request system?
>
> Likewise, we can also do the same for the requests containing the word
> "learn".

What about: "I'd like to contribute to the xyz system. I could also
contribute to abc system, but I'll have to learn it before"

I like your idea, but I can't see how we could do it. Perhaps
disallowing requests with fewer than 5 words would be a good start.

Oliver

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Ard Biesheuvel

22 years ago

Wez Furlong wrote:

> as a simple optimization, can we disallow requests with a single-word reason
> from ever reaching the account request system?
>
> Likewise, we can also do the same for the requests containing the word
> "learn".

What about a little quiz (a couple of questions about CVS or about PHP)
to determine if the person knows what he's doing ...

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Jan Lehnardt

22 years ago

Hi,
On 12 Mar 2004, at 13:23, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> What about a little quiz (a couple of questions about
>  CVS or about PHP) to determine if the person knows what he's doing ...

this was proposed several times already and probably agreed on, too.
All it takes is a developer, who is _that_ annoyed to implement
something like this.
Everything is in CVS, send in patches, not enough karma is not a
valid excuse :)

Jan

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Ard Biesheuvel

22 years ago

Jan Lehnardt wrote:

> this was proposed several times already and probably agreed on, too.
> All it takes is a developer, who is _that_ annoyed to implement
> something like this.
> Everything is in CVS, send in patches, not enough karma is not a
> valid excuse :)

Have a look at this patch. Maybe it will work ...

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DvDmanDT

22 years ago

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> Wez Furlong wrote:
>
> > as a simple optimization, can we disallow requests with a single-word
reason
> > from ever reaching the account request system?
> >
> > Likewise, we can also do the same for the requests containing the word
> > "learn".
>
> What about a little quiz (a couple of questions about CVS or about PHP)
> to determine if the person knows what he's doing ...

In that case, the first question should be "What is register_globals?"..
That question should accutually be on the mailing-lists.php page, 'cause if
the user don't know that, chances are about 70-80% that's their problem.. :p

Georg Richter

22 years ago

> as a simple optimization, can we disallow requests with a single-word
> reason from ever reaching the account request system?
>

Shouldn't we generally first give an cvs account after the person which
requested this account sent a patch (patch != typo fix).

According to Nuno Lopez's statistics (Zero commits: http://testes.aborla.net/
zero.html)  we have a lot of accounts which never submitted a line of code
(but according to google use a php.net mail address).

Just my 2 cents...

Georg

Rasmus Lerdorf

22 years ago

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Georg Richter wrote:

> > as a simple optimization, can we disallow requests with a single-word
> > reason from ever reaching the account request system?
> >
>
> Shouldn't we generally first give an cvs account after the person which
> requested this account sent a patch (patch != typo fix).
>
> According to Nuno Lopez's statistics (Zero commits: http://testes.aborla.net/
> zero.html)  we have a lot of accounts which never submitted a line of code
> (but according to google use a php.net mail address).

It's not quite that simple.  Just off the top I recognize a number of
those accounts on that zero.html list as being folks who manage the user
notes, for example.  They would never have committed anything to CVS and
in fact they for the most part don't have karma to commit anything, but
for the sake of not having multiple user account systems we use the CVS
user list to authenticate folks for notes management, bugs management,
etc.

About a year and a half ago I went through the CVS history and identified
about 400 accounts as far as I remember that hadn't committed anything and
had their account more than 2 years.  I poked all of these people at their
listed email addresses and ended up deleting about 200 accounts.  It might
be time to do another run

-Rasmus

Adam Voigt

22 years ago

Speaking of which, if someone wants to drop my "adam@php.net" address,
there welcome to, I never use it, and some spammer used it as the from
address, so I'm getting like 200 bounced emails forwarded to my home
account every day.


On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 11:48, Georg Richter wrote:

> > as a simple optimization, can we disallow requests with a single-word
> > reason from ever reaching the account request system?
> >
>
> Shouldn't we generally first give an cvs account after the person which
> requested this account sent a patch (patch != typo fix).
>
> According to Nuno Lopez's statistics (Zero commits: http://testes.aborla.net/
> zero.html)  we have a lot of accounts which never submitted a line of code
> (but according to google use a php.net mail address).
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> Georg

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