On Monday, June 2, 2014 9:31:30 AM UTC-4, kcrisman wrote: > > See also some very interesting discussions at https://www.biostars.org/ >
I didn't know about this QA software -- here is the source repository (MIT license): https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central Note that it's about 2 years old, and has a (small) handful of developers. On Monday, June 2, 2014 9:07:16 AM UTC-4, kcrisman wrote: > > Probably we would need to increase our regular traffic (I mean compared to > when we didn't have the anti-spam measures in place) by at least 50%. > In case people didn't follow this parenthetical comment, I should explain that ask.sagemath.org currently requires some non-trivial reputation to ask or answer questions. This was the simplest anti-spam measure we could implement until we upgrade to the latest version of AskBot (or other QA software). In particular, it means that new users cannot ask or answer questions, and therefore the site usage is much lower than normal. For the record, here's our rough roadmap for making AskSage maintainable again (in reverse order): * Fork latest AskBot (or other QA software) and cap number of posts per day for low-reputation users. * Optional: migrate existing questions, answers, and users to new AskBot install. Or put current install in read-only mode. * Before that, install latest AskBot * Before that, establish new VM for ask.sagemath.org (latest AskBot relies on recent versions of python and mongodb, which we are unable or unwilling to install on the very old machine boxen) Currently we are stalled at the very first step (establishing a new VM). But there is reason to believe that regular maintenance will be straightforward after the (not-so-straightforward) task of updating our very old installation. -Niles -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
