[CMake] spammers editing legitimate bugs?

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Mon Jul 30 13:41:19 EDT 2007


Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Reading this weekend's e-mail, I found that on Saturday one of my bugs 
> (4557) has been spammed, the metainformation replaced with random 
> values and the subject changed to "Goodsite" (it looks like this may 
> have happened to a lot of bugs).
>
> I tried to repair the damage, but when I click 'submit' I get 
> redirected to a blank page, and no change happens.
>
> Is someone at kitware working to repair this damage and to prevent it 
> from happening again? (I'm a bit surprised that someone, who 
> presumably does not have developer permissions, is able to edit my bug 
> reports!)
>
We are working on this problem.  I think we may have to ditch phpbug 
tracker.  We are looking at mantis.  If anyone knows how to convert bugs 
out of phpbugtracker to something else, help or suggestions would be 
appreciated.

Thanks, and sorry for the trouble.

-Bill



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