Please remove / block user from bugzilla

[James McKenzie]

Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> Austin English wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:30 PM, James McKenzie
>> <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:08:30 +0200
>>>> Gert van den Berg <wine-devel at mohag.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:23, James Mckenzie
>>>>> <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Rosanne and you have a good point, but I would restrict it the limit to
>>>>>> four lines.  You should be able to describe a valid bug in that space.
>>>>>>  Anything more, and it becomes an attachement.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> 4 lines is horribly short... Especially for posting instructions to
>>>>> reproduce problems, an overview of your system configuration, etc...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I agree. I've often exceeded 4 lines in comments.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I see your point.  However, should it not be sufficient to state a problem
>>> in ten lines or less?  This prevents pasting lengthy logs, statements, etc.
>>> in bugzilla?  I'll go with that number then.
>>>       
>> I've often seen 10 exceeded as well. Like earlier discussed, a regex
>> for fixme/err/etc. would be more useful.
>>     
> What Austin says. E.g. a git bisect result is at minimum 9 lines long,
> with more than 1 line of changelog it gets longer. And we do want those
> pasted into the comment and not attached.
>
>   
Again, I agree.  What method do we want to use to prevent the post that 
started this long conversation, that is the posting of a 'broken' patch 
sequence? 

I would say look for "what file to patch" or the actual wording used by 
the patch program to state I cannot find the file to patch.

As to the catching of 'fixme/error/trace/etc. I'm for this as well using 
regex.  Capture it and post a warning.  Flag the account.  Give a set 
number of warnings in a certain time period.  Then lock the account.   
The poster will have to ask permission to be allowed to post again.

Does this sound doable and is it permissible?  I don't want folks 
walking away because they cannot post, but if they are posting garbage 
it doesn't help us.  Also, give them a posting link if they cannot, for 
some reason, add attachments.  Sort of like a bugzilla for the Bugzilla 
thing.  If something is broken with Bugzilla we certainly should be 
interested.

James McKenzie