Thanks Tony, I see, so we need something like an ofbiz-contributors group (we have already ofbiz-admins and ofbiz-committers) and to add there users who want to edit the "Apache OFBiz (Open For Business) Wiki", right?
Are there no tools to help? Jacques On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:48 AM Tony Stevenson <[email protected]> wrote: > Jacques, > > All wikis in confluence now require a user to be logged in and added to a > group by an admin of that group so that they can edit > the wiki. This is a rather brutal, but alas necessary, step to prevent spam > and abuse on our wikis. > > > On 26 Nov 2013, at 07:43, Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I read the email "tragedy of the commons, email, and wikis" and this one >> also. >> I also know that , for spam reason, profiles are not updateable anymore. >> >> But I don't see a reason why the "Apache OFBiz (Open For Business) Wiki" >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Home >> would be only open to some persons (I'm one of them) >> >> Did I miss something? Is that normal or a side effect? >> >> Note: I'm following the Confluence notifications and we handle (fortunately >> sparse) spam issues on our side >> >> Thanks >> >> Jacques >> >> On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 11:07 PM Joseph Schaefer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Discussed funding a pair of contractors to attend a Cloudstack >>> conference to gain additional skills- approved by VP Infra. >>> >>> Acquired a free license for Jira Help Desk - rollout forthcoming. >>> >>> Installed wildcard SSL cert for *.openoffice.org. >>> >>> In pursuit of outsourced code-signing capability for project >>> releases. Negotiations have reached the NDA phase. >>> >>> Migrated the bulk of our SQL infra to a centralized database server. >>> >>> Discussed replenishing our Mac build infra. >>> >>> Purchased a wildcard cert for *.incubator.apache.org. 3 years >>> at $475 per year. >>> >>> Began holding informal weekly meetings via google hangouts. Open >>> to all infra-team members. >>> >>> Had a configuration regression regarding the PIG and DRILL Confluence >>> wikis, which allowed additional spam to reappear on those spaces. >>> >>> Apachecon.eu DNS reacquired from our registrar. Somehow it wasn’t >>> configured to autorenew so we lost that domain for a few days. >>> >>> We are still considerably behind the curve in our Jira workload and >>> that is starting to inform some of the reporting at the board level. >>> Please be patient while we continue to ramp up with existing personnel >>> to support the org’s continued growth. In response we have organized >>> a monthly jira walkthrough day dedicated entirely to outstanding >>> jira requests. Raw jira stats show we have made significant progress >>> over the past month and we expect that trend to continue, with 116 opened >>> vs. 166 closed. >>> >>> Aegis is reporting a bad disk and it needs to be replaced as the host >>> is seriously underperforming in its current state. >>> >>> Dell has solicited a warranty renewal offering for arcas, our jira server. >>> >>> We need to sort out licensing for our VMWare infra as we are currently in >>> a holding pattern for new VM’s until this gets resolved. >>> >>> We’ve disabled the user ability to edit their profile page in confluence, >>> eliminating another common source of spam. > > > Cheers, > Tony > > ---------------------------------- > Tony Stevenson > > [email protected] > [email protected] > > http://www.pc-tony.com > > GPG - 1024D/51047D66 > ----------------------------------
