That's the main problem with upgrades, try first to duplicate the setup in a virtual machine and try there the upgrade first. It could be useful to have first a proof of concept.
Daniel 2009/8/19 Rom Walton <[email protected]>: > Well, it requires Trac to be version 0.11 or better to work properly. > > Hence, a painful upgrade. > > ----- Rom > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel > Lombraña González > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:18 AM > To: Rom Walton > Cc: Eric Myers; David Anderson (BOINC); BOINC Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] trac spam > > That could be the best solution ;) > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Rom Walton<[email protected]> wrote: >> There is a newer spam filter for Trac that supports Captcha. >> >> ----- Rom >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Myers >> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:38 PM >> To: David Anderson (BOINC) >> Cc: BOINC Developers Mailing List >> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] trac spam >> >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, David Anderson wrote: >>> >>> We're looking at upgrading to the current version of trac (0.11) >>> which may have better spam-prevention features. >> >> If the newer Trac does not prevent this, another way to prevent such >> spam >> is to require some kind of approval for creating new Trac accounts, so >> that the spammers cannot do so, but legit users can. Hopefully the >> permission to do so could be delegated to a few volunteers, to keep from >> >> adding work load to the core developers. One would hope it would be >> less >> work than what it takes now for the people who are kindly cleaning up >> the >> spam. >> >> The drawback to that would be that it adds an extra barrier to getting >> information and contributions from people who are willing to help. But >> hopefully the barrier would be small enough not to scare them away, but >> large enough to keep the spammers out. >> >> >> Another possible way to handle it is an intermediate reporting form, >> like >> the one I set up for I2U2: http://www.i2u2.org/HelpDeskRequest.php It >> collects all the info needed to create a ticket, but it does not create >> a >> ticket. It sends the report to a very short mailing list, and can also >> post to a BOINC forum. If and only if the issue is worthy of a ticket >> in >> our bugzilla then someone on our team creates the ticket, not the >> reporting user. But they can do so easily with the info collected, >> while >> editing appropriately. >> >> Anonymous requests are allowed, provided the user solves a RECAPTCHA. If >> >> you are already logged in to the site (based on BOINC) then it >> automatically fills in the user user info and posts to the forum under >> your name. >> >> I can share the code for it if someone wants to modifiy it for >> BOINC alpha or however, but I'm afraid I don't have time (or awake brain >> >> cells) to do that right now. >> >> -Eric >> >> -- >> Eric Myers <[email protected]> 503-564-4169 >> >> PGP Key #6E2D2259/RSA: BA39 1D46 5EC3 0D59 C2AC 6FCB F920 4DC8 >> PGP Key #E519EAC3/DSS: D15B 9A50 B1ED 2947 EC29 B0F6 EA61 FB6E E519 EAC3 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >> To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >> (near bottom of page) enter your email address. >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >> To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >> (near bottom of page) enter your email address. >> > > > > -- > ·························································································································································· > PhD Candidate > http://jarifa.unex.es/ > http://flickr.com/photos/teleyinex > ·························································································································································· > Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el > intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV > o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un > fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él. > ·························································································································································· > -- ·························································································································································· PhD Candidate http://jarifa.unex.es/ http://flickr.com/photos/teleyinex ·························································································································································· Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él. ·························································································································································· _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
