On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2011, at 18:57 , Noah Slater wrote: > >> Sounds good to me. > > "Open a JIRA to get a wiki account" sounds very bad to me. > > I understand we gotta get the spam under control, but asking > people to sign up in two places and put a potentially long > manual setup process will kill almost any contribution energy. > Heck, I try to avoid the wiki as much as I can as is. > > <insert handwavey suggestion to a better alternative> > > (I got nothing for now apart from moving to a better wiki, sorry) > > Cheers > Jan > -- >
I agree with Jan about multiple signups. I'd say an email to any list or any IRC request is more than enough to get wiki edits is fine. > > > > >> >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> On Friday, October 21, 2011, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: >>>> To JIRA you mean? >>>> >>> >>> yes >>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> >>> wrote: >>>>>> Hey, >>>>>> >>>>>> On advice from Gavin McDonald, I'd like to suggest that we lock down >>> the >>>>>> wiki to a list of pre-approved users. To get approved to make edits, >>> you >>>>>> would submit a request to one of the mailing lists or to one of the >>> wiki >>>>>> admins or committers. That's it. It should remove the need to protect >>>>> pages >>>>>> like the "in the wild" stuff and the people on the couch. Other >>> projects >>>>>> have implemented this and they get absolutely no spam as a result. >>>>>> Infrastructure suggested we move to it, and I wanna see what people >>> think >>>>>> about it. >>>>>> >>>>>> More info here: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> +1 >>>>> >>>>> Maybe approval requests could also be submitted as tickets? >>>>> >>>>> - benoit >>>>> >>>> >>> > >
