MZMcBride wrote:
My intention wasn't to come across as dismissive. On the other hand, if people begin new conversations without having read the old conversations, it sets back progress dramatically. The opening post didn't make any mention of the old bugs or their progress, so I was trying to point out that these issues were already known and there were already forums in which they could and should be discussed.
There are such misunderstandings, so is sometimes the internet.
I think it's a real pity that CAPTCHAs are needed at all. They're a pain-in-the-ass and their effectiveness against coordinated or sophisticated attacks is dubious at best.
And then you have projects like ptwiki which permanently make IPs pass captchas due to a bot attack which was being done three years ago [1]. After running this way for three years, it probably needs community consensus to change now the status quo.
1- http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/Arquivo/2008/Janeiro#A...
If you looked at all of the CAPTCHA-related bugs as a group (including possibly removing the Python dependency), there's more than enough to be at least considered for Summer of Code 2011.
We should create a captcha tracking bug.