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I only just hopped on a couple of days ago, so I don't know the history of the project, and can't really say where the colloration is (or isn't). I'm just looking at this as a new person to the project; if I wanted to contribute some stuff, will it be easier to use standard wiki login (or whatever authentication is being used), or submitting my text to someone else who can update a locked web page. I suspect its would be harder/more time consuming to make updates to a locked/static page...but I don't really know how such pages are even updated. If updates are infrequent and its a small team, then collaboration "ease" seems like a minor issue.<br><br>I'm not trying to block either approach, as I say just thinking about it as a completely new person to the project.<br><br>(^_^)/<br>mike.<br><br>> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 07:35:46 -0800<br>> From: alan.coopersmith@oracle.com<br>> To: mgarvin@bell.net<br>> CC: fontconfig@lists.freedesktop.org; freedesktop@lists.freedesktop.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Fontconfig] Time to kill the fontconfig wiki?<br>> <br>> Michael Garvin wrote:<br>> > Sacrificing collaboration because of the spammers (moving to static<br>> > pages) seems undesirable :( Are there options to make it more secure? <br>> > Improving security is probably a good investment.<br>> <br>> Can you find a single page in the fontconfig wiki that anyone has ever<br>> collaborated on? Other than the front page, which is locked, the only<br>> other pages in the wiki about fontconfig itself are the old release notes<br>> that Keith posted years ago.<br>> <br>> If it was actually being used, like some of the other wiki's on freedesktop,<br>> I would suggest better policing - we greatly reduced spam in some of the<br>> other wikis by simply nuking it quickly so that the spammers moved on to<br>> targets like fontconfig where their spam lasted longer, and by keeping the<br>> spam words blacklist updated to block the domains they were trying to link to.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@oracle.com<br>> Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System<br>> <br> </body>
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