Hi, Everybody
I want address one important problem: here in the FreeBSD there is a rule that comes from ages - to supply email address when one wants to submit PR or new port.
Well, few decades ago it wasn't a problem, but not now when automatic spam bots are constantly searching the whole internet for new victims, which is a problem. Because of this, if contributors want to submit PR or new port, they end up getting flooded with spam. This causes them to either spend their time to clean up their inbox, or make a temporary email, just for the submission, and then forget about it which will lead
in losing the whole point in communicating with the contributor.
I have a proposal to fix this problem:
What about to allowing users to put their username on the forum, instead of email(unless they prefer submitting their email) when submitting a PR or new port.
- For an example: USER@freebsd.forum
Usernames are protected with forum's captcha, forum's software vBulletin is very flexible and limits accessibility to user profile where email is kept.
So, even if spam robot or spammer himself bypasses the captcha protection of the forum - anyway he will be pin pointed very quickly if he decide to spam.
As a result, those who want to communicate with port maintainer or PR submitter can register on this forum and communicate via "Private message".
Members of this forum may also allow for their email address to be visible on their profile to other registered users.
I believe it would be a good protection for contributors and stimulate more people to contribute.
So, imho it's a good reason to change outdated rules and allow to supply protected method of communication. People wouldn't be afraid to submit PR's because they wouldn't have to worry about sharing their email with whole world over GNAT, CVS, SVN, maillist systems that clearly show emails without any protection from spam bots.
New port creators would have more stimulus to submit their work to community and will spend their own time to improve software instead of filtering stupid emails everyday.
Of course someone can trust the spam filter, but as practice shows that very often legitimate mails comes into the spam folder too.
Personally I don't think that people such as http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributors/staff-committers.html should be punished with spam in their email for contributing for a better community. They spend their own time for the FreeBSD community and are punished by spammers for their work.
IMHO all of them - current and future contributors don't deserve that.
What do you thing about it?
I want address one important problem: here in the FreeBSD there is a rule that comes from ages - to supply email address when one wants to submit PR or new port.
Well, few decades ago it wasn't a problem, but not now when automatic spam bots are constantly searching the whole internet for new victims, which is a problem. Because of this, if contributors want to submit PR or new port, they end up getting flooded with spam. This causes them to either spend their time to clean up their inbox, or make a temporary email, just for the submission, and then forget about it which will lead
in losing the whole point in communicating with the contributor.
I have a proposal to fix this problem:
What about to allowing users to put their username on the forum, instead of email(unless they prefer submitting their email) when submitting a PR or new port.
- For an example: USER@freebsd.forum
Usernames are protected with forum's captcha, forum's software vBulletin is very flexible and limits accessibility to user profile where email is kept.
So, even if spam robot or spammer himself bypasses the captcha protection of the forum - anyway he will be pin pointed very quickly if he decide to spam.
As a result, those who want to communicate with port maintainer or PR submitter can register on this forum and communicate via "Private message".
Members of this forum may also allow for their email address to be visible on their profile to other registered users.
I believe it would be a good protection for contributors and stimulate more people to contribute.
So, imho it's a good reason to change outdated rules and allow to supply protected method of communication. People wouldn't be afraid to submit PR's because they wouldn't have to worry about sharing their email with whole world over GNAT, CVS, SVN, maillist systems that clearly show emails without any protection from spam bots.
New port creators would have more stimulus to submit their work to community and will spend their own time to improve software instead of filtering stupid emails everyday.
Of course someone can trust the spam filter, but as practice shows that very often legitimate mails comes into the spam folder too.
Personally I don't think that people such as http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributors/staff-committers.html should be punished with spam in their email for contributing for a better community. They spend their own time for the FreeBSD community and are punished by spammers for their work.
IMHO all of them - current and future contributors don't deserve that.
What do you thing about it?