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
>>
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