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
> 
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