From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 18:49:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from soupnazi.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FA637B401; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:49:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:49:10 -0800 Subject: Re: The web-based bug interface is currently disabled. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: Matthew Emmerton , Ceri Davies , Bill Moran , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , "" To: Daxbert From: Jim Mock In-Reply-To: <1046636119.3e62665783335@ra.dweebsoft.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Daxbert wrote: > Quoting Matthew Emmerton : >>> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:48:58PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >>>> Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >>>>>> No, FreeBSD dislikes moronic skript kiddies spamming the PR >>>>>> database. >>>>> >>>>> OK, I'm screwed :(. It's difficult to find committers interested >>>>> in my ports (math/cad stuff) anyway. I guess I'll just keep'em for >>>>> myself for some more time. >>>> >>>> Or you could consider helping find a way to re-enable the www to >>>> send-pr while preventing script kiddies from abusing it. >> >> Why not have a "pr-moderator" for each category (i386, kern, doc, >> etc), who approves each incoming PR. Basically this person would act >> as a front-line defense against spammers, but it would also allow >> them to assign PRs to developers as they are submitted, rather than >> letting them sit in the PR database for weeks/months before anyone >> picks them up. >> > > I've never submitted a pr, but I've written scripts for bulk web > submissions (GET and POST for load testing web apps). Did the > previous web pr-interface have any sort of verification process? (e.g. > email to submitter) Were there any sanity checks? (e.g. no more than > X pr's per Y time) > > Where would I look to find the *old* web pr interface? In the CVS tree, of course. Specifically www/en/cgi/dosendpr.cgi. If you don't have a local copy of the source or can't use CVS, you can use cvsweb: http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/ - jim -- jim mock jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message