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FS#2643 - Unable to delete a wrong Task
Today I received a Spam into my Flyspray, I wanted to ban the user and to delete the task, to my surprise I didn’t see an option to -delete- a created task, so I don’t want to keep this spammy content into my DB or even worse, publically viewable to other users / or google (which will impact in seo and also make their spamming successful forever), I just wanted to simply remove the task entirely from the DB
So my only option was to restore the 2-days before database backup in order to remove it, then I upgraded to the last git checkout but I didn’t see that option existing
I think flyspray needs to have that option included
Thank you
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To not implement the deletion of a task was an explicit decision made by original creators of Flyspray. See
FS#246How I handle spam on bugs.flyspray.org :
I created a project Spam that is very restricted, no search engine nor normal user can see it, only admin accounts who can ban/deactivate or delete users.
To be correct, I called the project "Trash" to make it a bit more clear a wrongly to "Trash" moved task can be pulled out of a "Trashbin".
The original summary and description is stored in flyspray_history table if necessary for restoring or further investigations of spam incidents.
I don't see a reason of why an invalid (spam) task should be not deleted, but I assume that you may have your own reasons for that
So what about having then a "spam" button which will do spam-specific things like the ones you said? (delete user, move task to a hidden project, replace description / summary, etc)
Yes, I also thought about that as it is just too much administration work for getting rid of spam tasks at the moment.
Will create a feature request.