Hello!

Spam has been an on-going issue with comments and the Wiki on
syncevolution.org; some spammers must have found a way around the
captcha mechanism for registering users or a hole in the Drupal
installation.

It became worse again recently. I cleaned up last week, but over the
weekend another 50 fake users were registered and several hundreds of
fake new Wiki pages created. This showed up in the site feed.

I'm therefore revoking all write access to the site for normal users. I
would have liked to avoid that because some users found the comments
useful (*), but I have neither time nor motivation to maintain that
aspect of SyncEvolution.

Besides the comment system, the site would also need some serious work
on updating the content and perhaps pruning some of the old, obsolete
comments and pages. There's also the risk that Intel will stop
supporting the separate SyncEvolution site and expect some of the
content to move 01.org, Intel's central site for open source projects.
I'm not sure how download.syncevolution.org would work in such a case.

If there is someone around who wants to host the site and/or become
administrator, please speak up. The site content is stored in Drupal,
with a file system directory exposed as download.syncevolution.org.

(*) On the other hand, some of the comments were bug reports or general
requests for help, which probably would have been better handled via
this list or the bug tracker.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.



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