Re: Bugzilla now requires authentication

2025-06-20 Thread Rémy Maucherat
On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM Mark Thomas wrote: > > On 19/06/2025 17:13, Christopher Schultz wrote: > > > > > I guess maybe I don't understand the issue. BZ always required an > > account to write, and anyone could register for an account. A small > > hurdle, but present. The same is true for

Re: Bugzilla now requires authentication

2025-06-20 Thread Mark Thomas
On 19/06/2025 17:13, Christopher Schultz wrote: I guess maybe I don't understand the issue. BZ always required an account to write, and anyone could register for an account. A small hurdle, but present. The same is true for GitHub. I'm not sure why we care about AI scrapers, given that all

Re: Bugzilla now requires authentication

2025-06-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
Mark, On 6/19/25 10:43 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 19/06/2025 15:10, Mark Thomas wrote: All, The Tomcat project has been using Bugzilla to track issues for more than 20 years. Recently there has been a significant increase in abusive traffic targetting the ASF's Bugzilla instances - mostly A

Re: Bugzilla now requires authentication

2025-06-19 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
On 19/06/2025 16:43, Mark Thomas wrote: While requiring authentication was a quick short term solution, some longer term solutions were discussed which includes migrating away from BugZilla. If we did so, GitHub issues is the obvious destination. When we last discussed moving to GitHub issues

Re: Bugzilla now requires authentication

2025-06-19 Thread Mark Thomas
On 19/06/2025 15:10, Mark Thomas wrote: All, The Tomcat project has been using Bugzilla to track issues for more than 20 years. Recently there has been a significant increase in abusive traffic targetting the ASF's Bugzilla instances - mostly AI scraping. To protect the ASF Bugzilla instan

Bugzilla now requires authentication

2025-06-19 Thread Mark Thomas
All, The Tomcat project has been using Bugzilla to track issues for more than 20 years. Recently there has been a significant increase in abusive traffic targetting the ASF's Bugzilla instances - mostly AI scraping. To protect the ASF Bugzilla instances and ensure that they remain usable f