On Oct 21, 2011, at 18:57 , Noah Slater wrote: > Sounds good to me.
"Open a JIRA to get a wiki account" sounds very bad to me. I understand we gotta get the spam under control, but asking people to sign up in two places and put a potentially long manual setup process will kill almost any contribution energy. Heck, I try to avoid the wiki as much as I can as is. <insert handwavey suggestion to a better alternative> (I got nothing for now apart from moving to a better wiki, sorry) Cheers Jan -- > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Friday, October 21, 2011, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >>> To JIRA you mean? >>> >> >> yes >>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>>> Hey, >>>>> >>>>> On advice from Gavin McDonald, I'd like to suggest that we lock down >> the >>>>> wiki to a list of pre-approved users. To get approved to make edits, >> you >>>>> would submit a request to one of the mailing lists or to one of the >> wiki >>>>> admins or committers. That's it. It should remove the need to protect >>>> pages >>>>> like the "in the wild" stuff and the people on the couch. Other >> projects >>>>> have implemented this and they get absolutely no spam as a result. >>>>> Infrastructure suggested we move to it, and I wanna see what people >> think >>>>> about it. >>>>> >>>>> More info here: >>>>> >>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> +1 >>>> >>>> Maybe approval requests could also be submitted as tickets? >>>> >>>> - benoit >>>> >>> >>
