Re: Bug tracker tool we need

On 04/19/2012 11:25 AM, Christopher Browne wrote:
>>
>> The vast majority of the spam I have originates in the postgresql git
>> repository. You don't have any commits there...
>>
>> But I would've assumed it should hit equally hard on other
>> repositories that's been around a long time.
> I have plenty of commits on the Slony Git repo, which has had clones
> at github for about as long as PostgreSQL has.
>
> And I don't get any noticeable amounts of spam at github.  Not all
> notifications are hugely interesting, but I don't see anything that's
> not reasonably related to things I have commented on.
>
> So I think there has to be some other effect in play.

The spammers pick certain well known projects, I believe.

At any rate, I found that my spam went to nil by turning off 
notifications for comments on my commits and comments that mention me.


cheers

andrew