Syncs using the LP API are showing up as sponsored uploads

[Micah Gersten]

This has the potential to skew statistics.
For example from week 42: micahg (c) (u): pidgin-skype 20110407+svn612+dfsg-1.1, 877109, 876656, texworks 0.5~svn939-2, whysynth 20090403-1.2, dsc-statistics 201106061022-4, ffmpegthumbnailer 2.0.7-2, libhtml-popuptreeselect-perl 1.6-5.1, ristretto 0.1.1-1, aeolus 0.8.4-6

All the uploads were syncs by me from Debian using the LP API (in the guise of syncpackage)

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This sounds like a LP problem to me. You are mentioned in Signed-By in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2011-October/000658.html for example. I'm not quite sure how to work around that.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

The spnsoring-stats aren't part of this project. But I agree with Dholbach. I was looking at those mails the other day, and realised that they don't match the format of the Archive Admin syncs.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Is there an LP bug that we can make this a duplicate of?

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

I think we need a consensus that there's a problem here, first. We discussed this on #ubuntu-motu the other day, but didn't get anywhere...
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/10/23/%23ubuntu-motu.html#t18:44

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

I filed bug 881288

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

No, that was Micah Gersten.

SCNR. :-P

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Note to self: Don't comment on bugs while on the phone: LP: #881476