On 21/02/2019 09.34, Simon Lees wrote:
On 21/02/2019 08:17, Fraser_Bell wrote:
On 2/20/19 1:48 AM, Alex Christoph Bihlmaier wrote:
Hello dear fellow opensuse-enthusiasts!
I am wondering about openSUSE connect - there is a huge amount of spam on it and it really is not a shiny & bright representation of the openSUSE project.
Who is in charge of it? I think we should deal with it.
cheers Alex
Nobody is willing to take charge of it: Short answer, complaints are made -- especially on the mailing lists -- but nobody will step up to do the job.
It has long been known that the openSUSE Board and other overworked Contributors have agreed that Connect should be closed, but there is a catch:
The only system for managing the openSUSE Membership and the list of openSUSE Members is Connect.
A replacement setup needs to be created, not on Connect, and without the Social Media notion.
It will require a secure database of the Members, so it can be checked for who qualifies for voting privileges, for example, plus a way for Contributors to apply for Membership, and a way for those who are permitted to check Memberships to be able to do so.
Until someone steps up to take on that task, we are stuck with it the way it is.
If someone wants to work on this it really wouldn't be hard, the last board discussed it in our face 2 face then I guess ran out of time to do something.
Given our new membership rules require much less checking, the new process could be as simple as a mailing list where people request membership stating why they should have it, then a member of the membership committee could approve the request presuming it meets the requirements and add there handle, email, preferred 0.0 email address and irc cloak to a google docs spreadsheet then a member of the hero's could be contacted to setup the mail forwarder and irc cloak. Only the Membership committee and Board would have access to the spreadsheet.
Obviously it would be much nicer if the solution didn't involve google docs so hopefully someone can come up with something before connect completely dies and we have to use it as a method of last resort. We don't need something complex however under GDPR we do need to ensure that only the people that need access to the info have it.
I understand that is what is needed for the new thing. But what is needed to clear the spam on opensuse-connect, which is the current thread subject? If I were to volunteer for that, what would I need to do? It seems to me that it is another forum. I know nothing of maintaining a forum in order to reduce spam, so all I can think of is manually deleting posts and killing those posters, but if they keep coming I have no idea how to block them. If the things to do involve maintaining that software, I know nothing about that software. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)