Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: new bug viewing/editing form

oops, forgot to cc: php-dev. ----- Forwarded message from Peter Lowe <pgl@mini.instinct.org> ----- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:20:39 +0100 From: Peter Lowe <pgl@mini.instinct.org> To: Melvyn Sopacua <msopacua@idg.nl> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: new bug viewing/editing form Reply-To: pgl@mini.instinct.org On Jan 06, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > Manuel Lemos said at 22:18 6-1-2002: > > >- Assuming that the number of votes may influence in the priority that > >developers will give to fix each bug, it seems easy to mislead > >developers because somebody that realizes that may submit a bunch of > >votes just to make it outstand in the pending bug queue. I suggest that > >you adopt an authentication scheme like bugzilla, that requires > >submitters to subscribe confirming the subscriptions by e-mail. This > >way, multiple votes from the same subscriber would only count as one. > > If you go down that road, instead of assuming mature users, and kicking > out the occasional kid, you'll end up with a lot of maintenance in the > the subscriber database, deleting numerous hotmail accounts. > > Floods can be easily detected, and bugs which outstand tremendously can > be investigated. > > There's also a much easier authentication for votes, which separates > humans from bots, described here: > http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/12/perl/ unfortunately fairly trivial to bypass: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=124732&lastnode_id=15004 although the way altavista use this technique with their url submission service (http://addurl.altavista.com/sites/addurl/newurl) would be a lot more secure. - peter. > > Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, > > IDG.nl > Melvyn Sopacua > Webmaster > > <greeting season="newyear"> > XML-error: undefined entity "peace" at line 1. > </greeting> > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- This is *probably* not the signature you are looking for. Move along. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- This is *probably* not the signature you are looking for. Move along.