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Debian/wx3 bugs
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=audacity
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772500
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773125
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774181
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774414
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774578
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ID | P | Summary (223 tasks) ⇒ |
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1141 | P1 | Keyboard shortcuts active when editing track name |
1006 | P1 | Preview with some built-in effects is from time zero if start of project offset from time zero. |
673 | P1 | Installer language choice unintuitive to users wanting Audacity in English while Windows is in localised language |
1221 | P1 | Chain asserts (Linux) or causes switch away from Audacity (Windows) on completion. |
1318 | P1 | Mac: Window close button on an effect loses all focus, requiring force quit |
1192 | P1 | Adding/Removing effects locks up Audacity. |
1096 | P1 | Crash changing view in Track Dropdown menu when zoomed in to sample level. |
1143 | P1 | Progress dialogues only show progress bar, sometimes time elapsed/remaining and sometimes the buttons. |
961 | P1 | Play cursor broken after double-click scrub play |
1087 | P1 | Moonphase failure to launch Audacity if audacity.cfg has tempdir set to /tmp/audacity1.2. |
953 | P1 | WX3: Audacity does not compile if LV2 is enabled in configure. |
1216 | P1 | Crash when "answering" No to exporting with unsupported extension. |
947 | P1 | Many built-in, Nyquist, LADPSA and LV2 effects fail with validation errors in many non-English locales. |
933 | P1 | Generate Menu non-functional on first installation. |
1266 | P1 | Failure to write .cfg files when using Virus Checker. |
1147 | P1 | ASSERT: Freeze when playing project which has labels |
1011 | P1 | Upgraders from 2.1.0 can't see how to add plug-ins or enable disabled built-in effects without scrolling the Effect Menu. |
1000 | P1 | Default View Mode item misnamed in Tracks Preferences |
1219 | P1 | Clipping hold indicator does not display until stream is stopped. |
1123 | P1 | Crash on Export |
1344 | P1 | Mac: Audacity does not build |
1045 | P1 | Calf, Tal, Fomp and MDA LV2 generators crash Audacity. |
1032 | P1 | WX3: Audacity does not build on Linux with wx3.0.2 |
1110 | P1 | Windows 8.1/10 crash using File > Open, > Import or > Save Project |
1271 | P1 | Move the Audacity temp dir to a location not scanned by cleanup apps |
1103 | P1 | key binding issues |
918 | P1 | Audacity as shipped (without FFmpeg) cannot import MPEG-4 audio |
1014 | P1 | Scrubbing feature retains non-functional mouse pointers and status bar messages. |
1250 | P1 | Mac OS X: Left channel tracks produce more than one selected channel in track dropdown menu. |
960 | P1 | Project Recovery crashes on Drive S:/ |
1007 | P1 | Incorrect URL's in Windows installer |
1224 | P1 | Incorrect zoom level when importing short uncompressed files when import uncompressed warning is turned off |
990 | P1 | SHIFT to seek during scrub completely unreliable. |
1047 | P1 | Vocal Reduction and Isolation not being shipped despite reference to it in 2.1.1 Release Notes. |
1118 | P1 | Crash opening valid lame_enc.dll from Libraries Preferences. |
1034 | P1 | Crash in auto-save related code -- unsafe downcast |
1105 | P1 | Crash on opening Plot Spectrum |
1159 | P1 | Sound Activated Recording crashes or Freezes |
1088 | P1 | Chains: For equalization, clicking edit parameters causes crash |
1081 | P1 | Equalization settings not saved |
1050 | P1 | LV2 plugins from previous version fail to initialize or re-register |
977 | P1 | No way to disable project scroll/zoom away from zero. |
1203 | P1 | Mac OS X: Clicking in most upper dock toolbars or in the Timeline removes focus. |
1114 | P1 | Multiple use of Repeat Last Effect shortcut on short selections crashes Audacity or requires force quit. |
974 | P1 | Register Effects GUI instructions are incorrect. |
1148 | P1 | Crashes during play if you use the History window commands |
1013 | P1 | Multi-Tool: Status Bar binding for Preferences incorrect if includes COMMAND or CTRL modifier (so wrong by default) |
1085 | P2 | Some special keyboard playback commands don't activate |
950 | P2 | No longer any way to see just 'New' plug ins that haven't been seen before. |
1347 | P2 | Divide by zero crash on launch with specific audacity.cfg |
983 | P2 | All "Other uncompressed" exports add WAV extension (AIFF on Mac) regardless of chosen header. |
1213 | P2 | Spectrogram Default View Mode misnamed as "Spectrum". |
1046 | P2 | LADSPA Hard Limiter incorrectly included on Mac |
1117 | P2 | Crash when reverb applied or previewed with stereo width = 0 |
1306 | P2 | Tracks > Align Tracks and > Move Selection when Aligning shortcuts no longer work |
1111 | P2 | Export options not operable in Export Multiple |
937 | P2 | Mouse use in tracks fails after using keyboard shortcut to stop scrubbing. |
1272 | P2 | Mixdown export shows no progress if one or more tracks are much shorter than the others. |
1172 | P2 | After saving a project, focus gets lost |
931 | P2 | M4A and WMA files exported with incorrect extension. |
969 | P2 | Resuming paused scrubbing causes erratic playhead movement/audio breakup |
922 | P2 | Some VST plugins crash/freeze Audacity when playback reaches end of selection |
1017 | P2 | Disabled built-in effects re-registered on restart. |
906 | P2 | Contrast tool applied when no tracks in project causes crash |
1226 | P2 | Plot Spectrum freezes first time in a project if insufficient samples selected. |
992 | P2 | History size calculation incorrect for large amount of data and for reused data. |
1120 | P2 | Mouse over Format or Rate in track dropdown menu crash |
1199 | P2 | Export multiple by labels when offset tracks exist adds silence to exported files. |
1037 | P2 | Minsrc tarball lacks LV2 so will disable it on systems that lack the required developer packages. |
940 | P2 | FLAC import and export slower than in 2.1.0. |
851 | P2 | Track dropdown menu settings may affect other tracks |
1282 | P2 | Tracks > Stereo To Mono is not removed from menu if disabled in Plug-in Manager but is disabled for session and crashes if used. |
1176 | P2 | Left-click (non-drag) Snap Guides no longer appear. |
1163 | P2 | VST: Audiocation Phase crashes when reopened. |
1101 | P2 | Enabling recording meter before recording gives repeatable crash |
925 | P2 | Crash when scrubbing to before zero |
1022 | P2 | Freezing and Menu corruption when using locales that are not included with OS X. |
1089 | P2 | Spectrogram and Spectrogram log(f) views cannot be selected |
1242 | P2 | Playing audio while Ambience VST is open crashes Audacity. |
956 | P2 | Scrub play usability issues |
1084 | P2 | VST: Some effects do not preview the chosen factory or user preset unless it is chosen while playing. |
898 | P2 | Crash closing Track Gain or Pan adjustment box on Mac. |
980 | P2 | Full path required to import/open a file from command-line. |
1204 | P2 | ASSERT: Crash when pressing both mouse buttons over toolbar buttons |
1191 | P2 | Gain or pan sliders in all tracks move when playing or recording. |
1116 | P2 | No metering or waveform during Timer Record. |
1299 | P2 | Track loses focus after applying a Chain to the project. |
936 | P2 | mod-nyq-bench fails to build |
1024 | P2 | Check for updates fails |
930 | P2 | Amplify initialises to Preview and OK greyed out. |
968 | P2 | Status bar message for scrubbing refers to old UI |
1094 | P2 | FLAC exports include the wrong FLAC version number in header |
1086 | P2 | Mouse Preferences: Bindings on Mac show Ctrl instead of Command |
905 | P2 | Chains do not use saved settings for LADSPA effects |
1128 | P2 | Help > Generate Support Data missing |
1061 | P2 | Chinese (Simplified) missing from Interface Preferences. |
1351 | P2 | Meter Refresh Rate of 0 is accepted, which crashes Audacity and prevents it restarting. |
603 | P2 | Crash using Undo while dragging sample points |
1214 | P2 | Import Raw Data cannot be used in Polish language. |
945 | P2 | Registered VST and LADSPA plugins deregistered on rescan. |
1195 | P2 | Project window title bar/buttons hidden under the menu bar |
938 | P2 | Audio longer than 2^31 samples is visually corrupted. |
1026 | P2 | Nyquist eq-lowshelf fails for low frequency high negative gain |
1257 | P2 | VST Amplio2: Crash after enabling or in real-time playback. |
1097 | P2 | Track artist errors caused by new macros in Audacity.h |
765 | P2 | Delays using Edit commands and Draw Tool in long projects. |
1010 | P2 | Plug-In Manager Effects GUI must be used to register some shipped effects including plugins |
1239 | P2 | Importing multiple files into new project windows produces waveform, but incorrect length on Timeline. |
1358 | P2 | OS X: Floated toolbars and Screenshot window disappear when Audacity loses focus. |
1217 | P2 | "Other uncompressed files" exports saved with incorrect extension. |
1122 | P2 | Shortcuts do not reassign properly |
948 | P2 | Most built-in effects removed after Effect > More... then restart when in Serbian (Cyrillic). |
887 | P2 | Crash using File > Close on project window when Screenshot Tools is open. |
1340 | P2 | Sync-Lock Tracks ignores generated audio. |
941 | P2 | Autoduck: problems with preview |
1031 | P2 | Spectral edit* effects missing from Makefile.am and Makefile.in so don't get installed |
855 | P2 | Data loss undoing sample edit while mouse is down |
1296 | P2 | Zooming to maximum in longer multi-clip tracks crashes in all clips except the last. |
927 | P2 | Amplify does not adjust signal level after Preview |
967 | P2 | Unregistered iZotope Vinyl freezes Register Effects, requiring force quit of child process or Audacity. |
1090 | P2 | Sync-Lock graphics shown in tracks when Sync-Lock is off |
1243 | P2 | Audacity may open with too small width/height when not maximised on previous close |
902 | P3 | WX3: Experimental wx3 version of Audacity potentially in Linux distros, and not obvious to users. |
1374 | P3 | Force MP3 export to mono doesn't remove stereo mixdown warning. |
1060 | P3 | Repeat effect fails when set to repeat once. |
883 | P3 | Contrast: "Move forward or backward thru active windows" does not refocus Contrast. |
334 | P3 | Crash closing project window between save project dialogues |
869 | P3 | RTP effect Play/Stop button remains deactivated after built-in preview ends |
1150 | P3 | Multiple export dialog partially disappears in Export Multiple |
763 | P3 | FFmpeg Custom Export: Crashes importing presets. |
1254 | P3 | Current label focus lost when closing Label Editor |
1072 | P3 | Applying Retinizer to Audacity makes the export format choice unusable. |
896 | P3 | Custom FFmpeg Export: Imported presets do not load. |
1357 | P3 | Pasting in effect controls does not update linked controls, sliders or linked OK/Preview. |
607 | P3 | LADSPA generate plug-ins fail when white space selected |
1048 | P3 | Spectral Selection Toolbar cannot set an undefined frequency. |
435 | P3 | Changing Windows default devices in Audacity session breaks recording or playback until rescan |
144 | P3 | Lyrics Window makes things slow, when many labels. |
1113 | P3 | Shift special (non-alpha) characters not produced in labels |
973 | P3 | Initial scrub speed is derived from Transcription Toolbar |
965 | P3 | Modules are still listed in Modules Preferences after modules are removed. |
949 | P3 | Freeze Track-Control-Panel-dragging a track from bottom to top of a project containing many tracks |
1057 | P3 | Minsrc tarball contains a superfluous (but harmless) .deps folder. |
892 | P3 | Spectral Selection Toolbar forces selection below half the project rate |
1171 | P3 | Mod-nyq-bench release build does not load on Windows |
1149 | P3 | Right Click Delete Label no longer works |
760 | P3 | VST (OS X) some effects no longer accept type or paste input in presets drop-down. |
1142 | P3 | imported presets for custom FFmpeg import overwrite existing presets without warning |
952 | P3 | VAMP: Can't input values using text boxes. |
895 | P3 | Unable to select high pass or low pass with Spectral Selection Toolbar |
884 | P3 | Plot Spectrum: Can't change values without losing focus. |
1327 | P3 | Undo Metadata Tags does not work |
870 | P3 | TAL VST (but not other VST's) crashes if previewing built-in effect |
52 | P3 | Truncate Silence should cater for the common use case of per-track operation. |
1275 | P3 | No preview in Spectral edit effects. |
1173 | P3 | Focus is lost after a nyquist warning/error dialog closes |
962 | P3 | Scrubbing gesture during recording places Audacity in scrubbing mode when recording stops |
1136 | P3 | The default setting for Export Audio to MP3 is 8 kbps |
996 | P3 | History size calculation wrong for 24-bit data |
609 | P3 | Bugs in configure progress and final output when enabling other than libsoxr |
879 | P3 | RTP effects do not respect "Select all if none" preference |
1190 | P3 | Recording meter flashes into the red beyond the blue maximum level bar |
934 | P3 | Loading effects removes the Audacity Menu Bar under GNOME. |
1023 | P3 | LADSPA-swh plugins dependent on libfftw3f-3.dll fail to initialize. |
759 | P3 | SPACE cannot be used/may crash in context menus that have a checkbox. |
957 | P4 | Incorrect rollover text for Spectral Selection Toolbar |
1126 | P4 | Ctrl+R key binding not shown in Effect menu and inoperative |
894 | P4 | Spectral Selection cannot be turned off |
518 | P4 | Click-to-see-slider-value tooltips unreadable |
944 | P4 | GSM 6.10 WAV is too high in the Export Audio>Save as type: dropdown |
1025 | P4 | DLL Effects in Plug-Ins that are moved from New to Disabled are still listed in New. |
836 | P4 | Ctrl+click in the empty gray space can now invoke a Quick-Play |
1104 | P4 | Incorrect playback of stereo tracks when channels different lengths |
1008 | P4 | Amplify effect should not have a "Factory default" and User defaults are dangerous |
709 | P4 | Keyboard preferences: incorrect reading of Search box label |
1130 | P4 | Export Multiple adds trailing silence if labels and multiple tracks |
886 | P4 | Some strings in Noise Reduction are not translated |
1337 | P4 | No Undo Metadata Tags entry when metadata is changed during export or import. |
976 | P4 | 3BandEQ, 3BandSplitter and Ping Pong Pan do not restore user presets |
872 | P4 | LV2 generators fail if no audio is selected |
1312 | P4 | Description message is wrong in Leveller |
1027 | P4 | Incorrect error message in Spectral effects. |
1108 | P4 | Unhelpful error message in "Spectral Edit" effects when Spectral Editing disabled. |
776 | P4 | Track Dropdown Menu does not open with SHIFT + M shortcut. |
914 | P4 | Shift + Click on Timeline does not play looped from clicked position |
1140 | P4 | Dialog title for custom FFmpeg export could be improved |
1364 | P4 | Analyze Contrast measures absolute silence as -60 dB |
643 | P4 | Residual consistency issues with SHIFT showing Loop Play button icon. |
513 | P4 | Contrast tool fails if selection is beyond the end of a previous track |
881 | P4 | Status Bar messages incorrect. |
1317 | P4 | Description message is confusing in Analyze>Find Clipping |
285 | P4 | "Specify MP3 Options" lacks a mono export choice |
943 | P4 | Change Tempo: new length is incorrect after preview and change in tempo |
1189 | P4 | Noise Reduction: New default produce more damage than previous default |
812 | P4 | Horizontal scrollbar position is persistent but vertical is not |
704 | P4 | Timeline arrowheads to create play region at cursor prevent click play and don't play on releasing drag. |
385 | P4 | Quick play intuitiveness and safety |
1311 | P4 | Description message is ungrammatical in Normalize |
1112 | P4 | The integrated export options truncate at the right for Quality and Variable Speed |
844 | P4 | Most shortcuts that activate play abort recording |
932 | P4 | Play-buttons-activated Play Cut Preview wrongly mapped to CTRL |
970 | P4 | Spectrogram colors vary with resizing of track |
1021 | P4 | "Builtin" in the Manage Effects etc GUI should be hyphenated as "built-in" |
1144 | P4 | Typing track name while label is selected enters text into label |
746 | P4 | COMMAND + click (or drag) to Play Cut Preview does not function. |
954 | P4 | Commit Id hyperlink does not open the browser. |
897 | P4 | Time ruler is not redrawn for zoom or horizontal scroll when play region is locked |
472 | P4 | Upper case .NY extension not recognised on case-sensitive systems |
1313 | P4 | Inconsistency in naming of Metadata Tags editor. |
271 | P4 | Sliding Time Scale lacks a Preview button |
1182 | P4 | Opening and closing windows from Export Audio dialogue puts that dialogue on top, could incur force quit. |
1109 | P4 | Track control panel menu: Shift-M acts like Shift-M, M |
797 | P4 | Export options should ideally have 32-bit exports listed |
1267 | P4 | Accessibility: some panels used for graphics are included in tab traversal |
1168 | P4 | Unclear column header in Extended Import Preferences |
1102 | P4 | key binding column not shown in keyboard preference dialog |
915 | P4 | Audacity creates a folder called Plug-Ins |
1033 | P5 | Swap stereo channels command loses the track focus |
752 | P5 | Snap guideline does not always disappear after mouse-up |
859 | P5 | Green play indicator does not draw correctly during very short loop plays |
924 | P5 | scrubbing can be activated from gray space |
913 | P5 | Clicking beyond end of audio on Timeline sets invalid play position |
1039 | P5 | 1 is not bold on Spectrogram log f ruler |
ID | P | Summary (41 tasks) ⇒ |
---|---|---|
961 | P1 | Play cursor broken after double-click scrub play |
1225 | P2 | Importing a file causes exports to default to wrong extension. |
1028 | P2 | Spectral edit effects work or don't work on hidden spectral selections in Spectrogram* views, depending on platform. |
1116 | P2 | No metering or waveform during Timer Record. |
1024 | P2 | Check for updates fails |
1029 | P3 | Changing min and max frequencies in spectrogram prefs causes scale to change but track is not redrawn |
403 | P3 | Only one "audacity.exe" can be added to Explorer "Open with" |
1146 | P3 | Artist and Year metadata is not exported or imported in FFmpeg 2.2.2 |
692 | P3 | OS X 10.5.8 PPC: Splash Screen and Log are disabled and unmovable. |
333 | P3 | Libsamplerate: Progress dialogue hangs or Audacity segfaults when resampling ratio exceeds libsamplerate limits |
1080 | P3 | Scrubbing playhead is moved when adjusting the playback (or recording) slider in Mixer toolbar |
994 | P3 | Clicking in active/inactive toolbar areas affects scrub in unexpected ways. |
1150 | P3 | Multiple export dialog partially disappears in Export Multiple |
1142 | P3 | imported presets for custom FFmpeg import overwrite existing presets without warning |
1149 | P3 | Right Click Delete Label no longer works |
358 | P4 | Corrupt cfg can cause choppy playback |
1157 | P4 | Change Speed Preview stops early when speeding up. |
975 | P4 | 3BandEQ and 3BandSplitter do not restore user presets |
863 | P4 | Gray button alongside "Left Channel" in Track Dropdown Menu - for stereo track |
1246 | P4 | Find Zero Crossing not greyed out during play, record or pause. |
1185 | P4 | The Custom FFmpeg options dialog can appear underneath the Export Audio dialog |
995 | P4 | Reopen Bug 855 - Data loss undoing sample edit while mouse is down |
921 | P4 | Pause button activates when first starting monitoring |
1280 | P4 | Users are confused by the plug-in manager GUI |
1127 | P4 | File format inconsistency Export Audio/selected versus Export Multiple |
817 | P4 | seeking and scrubbing refinements |
1380 | P4 | The version no in the "Welcome to Audacity" is terminated with an exclamation mark |
364 | P4 | Switch from libidtag to taglib? |
1177 | P4 | No hover-text in Custom FFmpeg export |
909 | P4 | Noise Reduction settings not in chains |
512 | P4 | Contrast tool gives incorrect error message on Reset |
1259 | P4 | Assert when closing Metadata Editor after editing Genre value |
1194 | P4 | Audacity Website Download>Plug-ins and libraries is out of date and incorrect |
1124 | P4 | Export Multiple defaults to AIFF on Windows and Linux |
796 | P4 | The order of the export formats presented to the user in the dropdown is far from logical |
1372 | P4 | Analyze>Contrast Help button goes to alpha Manual |
1140 | P4 | Dialog title for custom FFmpeg export could be improved |
1211 | P5 | Unhelpful error message in "Spectral Edit" effects when Spectral Editing disabled |
1228 | P5 | Redundant duplicate MO files. |
292 | P5 | MacPorts FFmpeg libraries are 64-bit, so Audacity does not support them |
924 | P5 | scrubbing can be activated from gray space |
Radar
P1/P2 Bugs Outstanding right now (live table)
ID | P | Summary (7 tasks) ⇒ |
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2548 | P2 | ENH: changed temporary directory location should be implemented immediately - not after restart |
2672 | P2 | Plug-ins listed in reverse alphabetic order in Plug-ins Manager |
2678 | P2 | Source will not build if path contains a space character |
2452 | P2 | Enh: De-clutter Plug-in Manager |
2663 | P2 | Audacity can make unwanted moves of toolbars |
2676 | P2 | Import Export: Incorrect handling over 0 dB |
2381 | P2 | Mac: Export to Opus (OggOpus) is not available on Mac - Opus import fails on Mac |
Moonphase
Summary
Enhancement
P3 (20) P4 (39) P5 | 67 |
total | 67 |
Audio Skips
Need to make this into an article, but no time yet. Anyone else is welcome to.
- Gale:17 Feb 11 This looks like a Feature Request to me so I integrated the vote with other similar ones received and added them to Feature Requests, while integrating the trivial content from IdlePriority back into FR's then deleting IdlePriority. I also added the tip about PSExec to point 17 in Managing Computer Resources and Drivers. I don't know what you had in mind for an article but if it's substantial and related to task priority perhaps you may want to resurrect Idle Priority.
Not sure where the complainant's message came from but if he gets skips on that system something is very wrong. I think he could look at Managing Computer Resources and Drivers and DPC Latency Checker .
- James:17 Feb 11 It sounds like an interaction issue to me, and to do with software that streams audio taking more resources, or possibly audio running 'on different cores'. Anyway, the bit that alerts me is that Audacity does not detect skips, i.e. when it fails to service portaudio frequently enough, and at some point I need to do something about that - at least understand what our status is. These are scrappy notes for myself. If you are making head or tail of them that's a bonus.
- Gale:19 Feb 11 Skips have always been a problem, but generally far less than they used to be as computers and even external storage gets faster. If Audacity detects skips, what should it do - increase the buffer, increase the blocksize? In the old days, most skips occurred at the point where Audacity wrote the blockfile. That I assume isn't relevant to John if he still gets skips with Audio Cache on, but it would be interesting to know if other recording software like Windows Sound Recorder behaved any better. Generally Win7 and Vista are very "busy" OS'es that seem to do a lot of housekeeping in the background by default like making backup copies of files.
- James:21 Feb 11 Skips on recording are serious, and by default should be signalled to the user. Not an 'abandon recording' but a note on the status bar and a log message on ending or pausing recording. Could always have a "don't show this again" tick box.
From John Smit:
Without an internal facility for changing priority, I use PsExec, one of the Windows Sysinternals Suite (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553) to set the priority of Audacity. The shortcut below works for me:
C:\Windows\System32\PsExec.exe -d -high "D:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)\audacity.exe"
This has reduced (but not eliminated) my audio skips.
Funny thing is, some internet sites never skip, like LastFM; others occasionally, like WQXR.org; some very often, like http://classicalsouthflorida.publicradio.org/radio/playlist/.
I have two 3Ghz quad core Windows 7 machines with 4GB ram and 7200rpm 64MB cache hard disks, and also use the "audio cache to Ram" setting (that helped some), and 7 Mbps DSL service - so I don't think the skip problem is hardware related.
Thanks for a great (and free) program.
Pre-emptive Blocks
Users who create an account and then don't edit anything - I am now regarding as suspicious. I also regard it as suspicious having a number on a user name when no number is needed. Statistically these users overwhelmingly never create anything of use.
My pre-emptive blocks might piss off a few real users. If so, and if they really are serious, perhaps they will complain by other channels. We will see. It's an experiment.
Gale: 09Feb11 -1. I am certainly not going to pre-emptively block users, even if we had the time to do it, though I understand you've just had to clean a lot of spam (thanks). I assume the "number" on the username is to match an e-mail address.Punishing legitimate users (however unlikely they may post) is just telling spammers they won. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the "problem" of users registering and not posting just appears to be worse than it was because user creations did not used to show by default in Recent Changes. I think if we want to restrict new users (which I don't) or address spam (of course) we want to do it properly with a mod, not like this. Please respond.
- I was dubious about doing it myself. Consider the experiment over. James 20:50, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- Gale: Thanks. Sorry if I was forceful. I think we need to consider the possibility of a major attack happening though. Clearly some bots can read CAPTCHAS - we know that from the Forum. And sadly for the amount of really useful edits we get here, we could almost have the "apply for an account" system that we have on the Manual.
- James: Not too forceful - comment was fine. I would like to have had a big lock down button that bureaucrats can press that disables new account creation for a while - and says please apply for an account. Anyway, let's see how the spam goes. My take on it is if the volume of spam is greater than the volume of useful new content, we should at least consider switching to "apply for an account".
- Peter 10Feb11:I too note the large numbers of users who register and never post. Could we automate a process whereby somebody who registers for an account and then doesn't post within a specific period of time (a week, a month say)then their account gets deleted/de-activated? The only real reason for creating an a/c is to be able to contribute to the Wiki. I agree with James that it could be good to move to an account application process like we do with the manual - though that could put off the folk who register just to add a few quick votes to the FR pages.
- Gale: 17Feb11: I discussed this with Buanzo a while ago on Wiki Development Checklist i.e. there is a shell script to prune unused accounts but the time period it works on wasn't clear. As on the Forum, I wouldn't be happy with deleting users unless they've been inactive for a couple of years, so it would be a tidying exercise rather than spam protection. There may be other solutions out there now - I haven't looked. As for FRs, James and I have come to the view it takes less time to clear up mess if we don't encourage people who e-mail a suggestion to come to the Wiki and vote. That's partly an indictment of not having a better voting system I think, but that's how it is now.
- Peter 10Feb11:I too note the large numbers of users who register and never post. Could we automate a process whereby somebody who registers for an account and then doesn't post within a specific period of time (a week, a month say)then their account gets deleted/de-activated? The only real reason for creating an a/c is to be able to contribute to the Wiki. I agree with James that it could be good to move to an account application process like we do with the manual - though that could put off the folk who register just to add a few quick votes to the FR pages.
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Sortable feature request
I've just made a try to help improving the sorting of the feature requests and I'd like to have your opinion. If it's ok for you, I'll be able to adapt the actual feature request page. There will be no need for the highest rated section. --Djiboun 08:48, 2 October 2010 (UTC)