Wouldn't a move to either github pages or github wiki be easiest,
management-wise? I could have a crack at converting the Drupal database to
markdown files.

Emile
On Apr 7, 2014 3:15 PM, "Patrick Ohly" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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