I don't think moving to Confluence will fix the problem.   If I
recall, people can add comments to confluence pages without needing to
authenticate.
So we'll just be changing it from page spam to comment spam.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Gerhard Petracek
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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