Recently, some people are abusing the KDE Bugzilla instance for their own projects (which are completely unrelated to KDE), and as a result a number of invalid bugs were created, such as Bug 424933 and Bug 424936. Therefore, I suggest adding a (temporary) message to warn people about this. The following warning text appeared on Mozilla's Bugzilla homepage several months ago [1]: > This is a production system. **Posting invalid bugs or fake bugs as part of coursework assignment will result in your account being suspended, and may affect your ability to participate in Mozilla projects in the future.** If you want to try Bugzilla [follow the instructions for installing and running it in a container](https://github.com/mozilla-bteam/bmo#id1). [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200214152211/https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home
We have had a run in with Seneca University students in the past doing very similar things. I had hoped that the message we sent the University student conduct team last time would have done the trick but apparently not. I've just sent the students in question a message asking for them to explain their conduct and to provide the details on the course they are doing so we can take this matter up with the course lecturers (along with the academic conduct committee for the lecturers/academics involved)
The students ignored our reminders and warnings, and keep posting invalid bugs, such as Bug 424969, Bug 424980. I hope the KDE admins can inform the academic conduct committee as soon as possible about this matter, and take actions so that KDE developers will not be spammed by invalid/fake bug reports.
I looked up their IP addresses in server logs, but they are very different, they're probably accessing from home. If it wasn't for the pandemic we could just ban the campus...
While i've not been able to find details on how to contact their Academic Conduct Committee, I have found details for their Student Conduct Committee and have reached out to them now.
Are there any updates to this matter (especially response from Seneca College)? The students studying the PMC240 course [1] did the same thing today (Bug 425019, Bug 425021, Bug 425022, Bug 425042). [1] See Bug 425042 Description and https://ict.senecacollege.ca/course/pmc240?q=course/pmc240
We've received a response from them now, and they hit the same issue we did with regards to identifying the course in question. I've now sent them the information we do have (including the full addresses of those that used their @myseneca.ca addresses) including links to examples here on Bugzilla. It's quite fortunate that one of the students decided to use that course code in their dummy GMail addresses as that is likely to help quite a bit.