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I only just hopped on a couple of days ago, so I don't know the history of the project, and can't really say where the colloration is (or isn't). I'm just looking at this as a new person to the project; if I wanted to contribute some stuff, will it be easier to use standard wiki login (or whatever authentication is being used), or submitting my text to someone else who can update a locked web page. I suspect its would be harder/more time consuming to make updates to a locked/static page...but I don't really know how such pages are even updated. If updates are infrequent and its a small team, then collaboration "ease" seems like a minor issue. I'm not trying to block either approach, as I say just thinking about it as a completely new person to the project. (^_^)/ mike. > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 07:35:46 -0800 > From: alan.coopersmith@xxxxxxxxxx > To: mgarvin@xxxxxxxx > CC: fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; freedesktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Time to kill the fontconfig wiki? > > Michael Garvin wrote: > > Sacrificing collaboration because of the spammers (moving to static > > pages) seems undesirable :( Are there options to make it more secure? > > Improving security is probably a good investment. > > Can you find a single page in the fontconfig wiki that anyone has ever > collaborated on? Other than the front page, which is locked, the only > other pages in the wiki about fontconfig itself are the old release notes > that Keith posted years ago. > > If it was actually being used, like some of the other wiki's on freedesktop, > I would suggest better policing - we greatly reduced spam in some of the > other wikis by simply nuking it quickly so that the spammers moved on to > targets like fontconfig where their spam lasted longer, and by keeping the > spam words blacklist updated to block the domains they were trying to link to. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@xxxxxxxxxx > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > |
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