i agree with mark.
furthermore, we >have< drafts at the wiki and the results get included and
released.

regards,
gerhard

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2011/5/19 Mark Struberg <[email protected]>

> humm, got that info from asking a few other members...
>
> Anyway, I think it is actually really a tiny hurdle to ask people to please
> ping us on the dev list and we will activate them in the wiki quickly.
>
>
> LieGrue,
> strub
>
> --- On Thu, 5/19/11, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > From: Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: spam in our wiki / wiki migration
> > To: "MyFaces Development" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 2:51 PM
> > No, we don't need to require a
> > contribution for the wiki because we
> > don't distribute it.   At least this has
> > been the case as long as I
> > can remember, and I'm fairly certain it's standard Apache
> > practice
> > (otherwise we would not have wikis at the ASF).
> >
> > We do require an agreement to make changes to the official
> > documentation that we distribute, which is why it requires
> > svn access
> > to change.
> >
> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Mark Struberg <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Folks, i might be that we have to remove the public
> > access without login anyway!
> > >
> > > I actually thought this restriction is already in
> > place.
> > >
> > > Remember the last time where Bart Kummel (still sad to
> > not recognice you for a shakehand at confess in Vienna btw!)
> > helped us with contributing a paragraph? He also had to file
> > an iCLA.
> > >
> > > That's for 'significant contributions' of course, but
> > a normal user must at least acknowledge the ALv2 license
> > rules if he likes to 'contribute' something.
> > >
> > > In Jira we have this 'can be included' checkmark for
> > patches. That's kind of the analogy I think we also would
> > need in moinmoin. In confluence we already have an excplicit
> > 'write' access, so this is not so problematic because that
> > 'ack ALv2' might be handled on the lists upfront.
> > >
> > > wdyt?
> > >
> > > LieGrue,
> > > strub
> > >
> > > --- On Thu, 5/19/11, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> From: Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]>
> > >> Subject: Re: spam in our wiki / wiki migration
> > >> To: "MyFaces Development" <[email protected]>
> > >> Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 2:27 PM
> > >> The reality is that we don't use the
> > >> wiki for drafts.   We use it to
> > >> allow anyone, including non-officially-recognized
> > >> committers, to create
> > >> MyFaces specific pages.  I know Confluence as a
> > >> documentation system
> > >> is going away.   It's unclear to me if
> > >> Confluence as a wiki is going
> > >> away.
> > >> I have never been involved with Confluence as an
> > >> administrator, but if
> > >> we can easily add anyone to the wiki space, that
> > could be a
> > >> workable
> > >> solution.   If we go that route, we should
> > >> have something immediately
> > >> obvious which describes the process to get
> > access.
> > >>
> > >> My opinion:
> > >>
> > >> Spam isn't a problem so far (going on several
> > years
> > >> here).   Major
> > >> spam attacks get cleaned up by infra and are very
> > rare (I
> > >> can recall
> > >> only three).   Minor ones happen rarely, and
> > >> are easy to clean up
> > >> ourselves.   The benefit of an open wiki far
> > >> outweighs the spam
> > >> cleanup costs.   I suspect that the work to
> > >> maintain users for
> > >> Confluence will be greater than the work we spend
> > cleaning
> > >> up spam.
> > >> And as soon as we introduce a delay (getting
> > authorized),
> > >> then we will
> > >> lose contributions.   I know I've tried to
> > >> edit certain wikis, but for
> > >> the minor change I wanted to make, it wasn't worth
> > coming
> > >> back at some
> > >> later time after I had gone through the process of
> > being
> > >> authorized.
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Gerhard
> > Petracek
> > >> <[email protected]>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > thx mike for moving the thread.
> > >> > it looks like it's getting more and i don't
> > like to
> > >> observe it.
> > >> > we already said that we move away from [1].
> > >> > instead of keeping the dev-wiki at [1] for
> > drafts,...
> > >> it might be better to
> > >> > create a separate myfaces-dev space at
> > confluence.
> > >> > so we can add new contributors quite fast and
> > if they
> > >> submit spam, we can
> > >> > remove them easily.
> > >> > that's also the suggestion of the
> > infrastructure team
> > >> (at least of some of
> > >> > them who responded to my question).
> > >> > regards,
> > >> > gerhard
> > >> > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/
> > >> >
> > >> > http://www.irian.at
> > >> >
> > >> > Your JSF powerhouse -
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> > >> > Courses in English and German
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> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > 2011/5/19 Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Moving to dev.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Neither Confluence nor the Apache CMS is
> > a good
> > >> replacement for a
> > >> >> wiki.   Unfortunately, there doesn't
> > appear to be
> > >> a better option for
> > >> >> this yet (an unrestricted group
> > documentation
> > >> area).   Spam is part of
> > >> >> the price you have to pay to have such an
> > area,
> > >> and we've been pretty
> > >> >> fortunate to not have had that much of an
> > issue
> > >> with it.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> There was a discussion on various
> > documentation
> > >> systems on Cayenne
> > >> >> that you might find helpful:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06028.html
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Gerhard
> > Petracek
> > >> >> <[email protected]>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> >> > yes - we said we move the content
> > for our
> > >> users to confluence but maybe
> > >> >> > it's
> > >> >> > a better idea to wait until apache
> > cms is
> > >> useable (pdf export,...).
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > regards,
> > >> >> > gerhard
> > >> >> > http://www.irian.at
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > Your JSF powerhouse -
> > >> >> > JSF Consulting, Development and
> > >> >> > Courses in English and German
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > Professional Support for Apache
> > MyFaces
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > 2011/5/19 Mark Struberg <[email protected]>
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> I realized that our Wiki front
> > page is
> > >> pretty old (not to say outdated)
> > >> >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/FrontPage
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> LieGrue,
> > >> >> >> strub
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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