From eliswilson at hushmail.com Wed May 1 01:07:06 2013 From: eliswilson at hushmail.com (eliswilson at hushmail.com) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:07:06 -0400 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science Message-ID: <20130430230707.E3FD4E673F@smtp.hushmail.com> Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world?s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia, USA. We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from that paper include: (1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa (2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic (3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or inheritance (4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model (5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer (6). Laptop is an example for a super computer (7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without any reviews) and we were invited to submit the final paper and a payment of $500+ fee to present the paper. We decided to use the fee for better purposes than making Prof. Hamid Arabnia richer. After that, we received few reminders from WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded. This fake paper is different from the two fake papers already published (see https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4 for details) in WORLDCOMP. We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any thoughts of participating in WORLDCOMP. DBLP and other indexing agencies have stopped indexing WORLDCOMP?s proceedings since 2011 due to its fakeness. See http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html for of one of the conferences of WORLDCOMP and notice that there is no listing after 2010. See Section 2 of http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf for comments from well-known researchers about WORLDCOMP. The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from scientific to other (i.e., junk or non-technical) at any time. Better not to have a paper than having it in WORLDCOMP and spoil the resume and peace of mind forever! Our study revealed that WORLDCOMP is money making business, using University of Georgia mask, for Prof. Hamid Arabnia. He is throwing out a small chunk of that money (around 20 dollars per paper published in WORLDCOMP?s proceedings) to his puppet (Mr. Ashu Solo or A.M.G. Solo) who publicizes WORLDCOMP and also defends it at various forums, using fake/anonymous names. The puppet uses fake names and defames other conferences to divert traffic to WORLDCOMP. He also makes anonymous phone calls and threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (See Item 7 of Section 5 of above website). That is, the puppet does all his best to get a maximum number of papers published at WORLDCOMP to get more money into his (and Prof. Hamid Arabnia?s) pockets. Prof. Hamid Arabnia makes a lot of tricks. For example, he appeared in a newspaper to fool the public, claiming him a victim of cyber-attack (see Item 8 in Section 5 of above website). Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP for more than 10 years, until 2012) has refused to provide the venue for WORLDCOMP?13 because of the fears of their image being tarnished due to WORLDCOMP?s fraudulent activities. That is why WORLDCOMP?13 is taking place at a different resort. WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013. The draft paper submission deadline is over but still there are no committee members, no reviewers, and there is no conference Chairman. The only contact details available on WORLDCOMP?s website is just an email address! We ask Prof. Hamid Arabnia to publish all reviews for all the papers (after blocking identifiable details) since 2000 conference. Reveal the names and affiliations of all the reviewers (for each year) and how many papers each reviewer had reviewed on average. We also ask him to look at the Open Challenge (Section 6) at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 and respond if he has any professional values. Sorry for posting to multiple lists. Spreading the word is the only way to stop this bogus conference. Please forward this message to other mailing lists and people. We are shocked with Prof. Hamid Arabnia and his puppet?s activities at http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the keyword worldcomp fake for additional links. From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sat May 4 17:23:16 2013 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Yogesh) Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 15:23:16 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue509] Automatic update of contributor fields on contrib form submission In-Reply-To: <1362492558.99.0.553452217732.issue509@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1367680996.33.0.227785442749.issue509@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Yogesh added the comment: I am not sure my issue is related to this, but I had submitted the CLA at same time May-2 as patch for http://bugs.python.org/issue17890. But according to http://bugs.python.org/issue17890#msg188337 , I still don't see a * next to my ID ---------- nosy: +Yogesh.Chaudhari _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Sun May 5 06:22:58 2013 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Ezio Melotti) Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 04:22:58 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue509] Automatic update of contributor fields on contrib form submission In-Reply-To: <1362492558.99.0.553452217732.issue509@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1367727778.18.0.581036205817.issue509@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Ezio Melotti added the comment: It's still not automatic -- it might take a few days. _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Tue May 7 15:19:19 2013 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Nick Coghlan) Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 13:19:19 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue352] delete button for queries does not work In-Reply-To: <1281701983.92.0.554897059954.issue352@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Message-ID: <1367932759.34.0.349978118504.issue352@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> Nick Coghlan added the comment: This hit me as well (because rerunning a query with the same name in the saved field creates a new copy rather than overwriting the original). Potentially related is the fact that in addition to delete not working, the dropdowns don't let me change the query state (I get a permission error when I hit "Save Selection"). ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za Wed May 15 12:42:19 2013 From: metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za (Jaakko Moisio) Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:42:19 +0000 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] [issue517] Issue Tracker crashes when replying to patch review Message-ID: <1368614539.09.0.10268095981.issue517@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> New submission from Jaakko Moisio: I tried to reply to a patch review, more specifically this one: http://bugs.python.org/review/17976/#ps8158 The tracker crashed, giving me the following traceback: Environment: Request Method: POST Request URL: http://bugs.python.org/review/17976/publish Django Version: 1.2.3 Python Version: 2.6.6 Installed Applications: ['django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.admin', 'gae2django', 'rietveld_helper', 'codereview'] Installed Middleware: ('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'roundup_helper.middleware.LookupRoundupUser', 'gae2django.middleware.FixRequestUserMiddleware', 'rietveld_helper.middleware.DisableCSRFMiddleware', 'rietveld_helper.middleware.AddUserToRequestMiddleware', 'django.middleware.doc.XViewMiddleware') Traceback: File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response 95. response = middleware_method(request, callback, callback_args, callback_kwargs) File "/home/roundup/trackers/tracker/rietveld/rietveld_helper/middleware.py" in process_view 37. response = view_func(request, *view_args, **view_kwargs) File "/home/roundup/trackers/tracker/rietveld/codereview/views.py" in login_wrapper 657. return func(request, *args, **kwds) File "/home/roundup/trackers/tracker/rietveld/codereview/views.py" in issue_wrapper 741. return func(request, *args, **kwds) File "/home/roundup/trackers/tracker/rietveld/codereview/views.py" in xsrf_wrapper 694. return func(request, *args, **kwds) File "/home/roundup/trackers/tracker/rietveld/codereview/views.py" in publish 3053. in_reply_to=form.cleaned_data.get('in_reply_to')) File "/home/roundup/trackers/tracker/rietveld/codereview/views.py" in _make_message 3223. replied_issue_id = msg.in_reply_to.issue.key().id() Exception Type: AttributeError at /review/17976/publish Exception Value: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'issue' I repeated twice, always giving the same result. ---------- messages: 2734 nosy: jasujm priority: bug status: unread title: Issue Tracker crashes when replying to patch review _______________________________________________________ PSF Meta Tracker _______________________________________________________ From brett at python.org Thu May 23 23:16:05 2013 From: brett at python.org (Brett Cannon) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:16:05 -0400 Subject: [Tracker-discuss] Anyone interested in taking over administration of tracker-discuss? Message-ID: I'm pivoting my Python time off of infrastructure stuff and managing this list is my list thing to give up. Anyone interested in taking over for me? Multiple can do it together to spread the load.