Re: [pydotorg-www] let this be a warning to would-be wiki editors

2017-06-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 27, 2017, at 03:31 PM, Fox wrote: >you wanna put up with this ? Not really. Can we block this guy? -Barry ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Help with mailing lists?

2014-12-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
CC'ing in postmaster. On Dec 23, 2014, at 05:56 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote: >I needed some help with some mail lists at mail.python.org: I need a password >reminder, but never got one, and I have some questions about creating a new >list. I just tried it with the 'playground' mailing list and it w

Re: [pydotorg-www] Vandalism/spam on wiki.python.org: changes to default permissions

2014-06-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 02, 2014, at 12:39 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >You need to count non-reverted edits before and after the certain date. >That's all. And am curious about Mailman - it is clear that for w.p.o there >is no stats yet. I suppose it's possible to get some stats out of the Mailman wiki, but al

Re: [pydotorg-www] Vandalism/spam on wiki.python.org: changes to default permissions

2014-05-31 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 31, 2014, at 10:49 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >I've added a new user group called NewUsersGroup, which does >get editing rights, but we'll have to manage this manually and >new users who want to receive editing rights will have to write >to this mailing list to be added to the group. TBH, we

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: strange entry in calendar?

2013-07-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 16, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Michael Foord wrote: >> From: Ronald Oussoren >> Subject: strange entry in calendar? >> Date: 16 July 2013 12:18:12 EEST >> To: webmas...@python.org >> >> Hi, >> >> I just noticed a spammy entry in the release schedule calendar on >> www.python.org: >> >> >> >>

Re: [pydotorg-www] No news appearing on python-announce-list for a month

2013-05-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 06, 2013, at 05:12 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> Note though, that there *is* a confirmed technical problem with the list. >> OpenPGP signed email sent to the list disappears into a black hole. I >> don't remember if it shows up in the moderator queue or not, but it >> definitely won't sh

Re: [pydotorg-www] No news appearing on python-announce-list for a month

2013-05-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 06, 2013, at 11:49 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >Thanks for checking, so this is not a technical problem, but more >a moderator one. I've pinged the moderators off-list. Yep, we're adding new moderators now. Note though, that there *is* a confirmed technical problem with the list. OpenPGP sig

Re: [pydotorg-www] Retiring catalog-sig

2013-04-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 01, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: >I've already started this process. Thanks Brad! >The old list has not been deleted, but is fully locked down from getting any >more posts made to it, and the auto-responder has been turned on to tell >everyone that all new posts should be made t

Re: [pydotorg-www] Retiring catalog-sig

2013-04-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
CC'ing postmaster, who can do the mailing list thingies. On Mar 31, 2013, at 09:14 AM, Richard Jones wrote: >Hi all, apologies for the x-post, > >Could someone please help me retire the catalog-sig? I'm about to notify >all current members, telling them to subscribe to the distutils-sig if they >

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-22 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:19 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >Did this have an effect on the number of editors of the wiki ? It probably did, but it's hard to gauge. It's not like we had a ton of non-spam editors previously. We never denied anybody write access if they asked though. >The usual complaint

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 20, 2013, at 10:08 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >If we can't get things under control, we will have to start >using such a group and disable public editing of pages :-( FWIW, we've long had this policy on the Mailman wiki. It was the only successful way to control spam. Sign up is open (and

Re: [pydotorg-www] Migrating python.org to OSL

2013-03-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 18, 2013, at 03:17 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >As part of the PyCon sprints I would like to move python.org off dinsdale to >a VM at OSL. Due to the build system being tied to SVN, I'll also migrate >that service on the same VM. Do any SVN repos other than www/ need to remain >available? Th

Re: [pydotorg-www] Changing default wiki permissions

2013-01-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 24, 2013, at 04:28 PM, Radomir Dopieralski wrote: >On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:13 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> We're currently working on setting up the new VM with the >> Python and Jython wikis. >> >> In order to increase security and also to help a bit with >> avoiding spam/vandalism, we'd

Re: [pydotorg-www] [python-committers] Deleting code.python.org

2012-07-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 02, 2012, at 05:57 PM, mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: >code.python.org was meant as a VCS-independent hostname for CPython; >PEP 385 chose to use hg.python.org instead. > >I'd like to delete code.python.org. Objections? None from me. Cheers, -Barry _

Re: [pydotorg-www] New IRC channel: #python-infra

2012-03-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 21, 2012, at 02:31 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >I've setup an IRC channel on Freenode, #python-infra, for ongoing operations >chatter and notifications. If you are interested, please join us! I'm on too many channels as it is so I'm not going to join. Ping me on #python-dev though if somet

Re: [pydotorg-www] make m.p.o/mailman/ redirect to listinfo?

2012-01-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 26, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >* Jeremy Baron : >> Hi, >> >> IMHO, http://mail.python.org/mailman/ should do something useful >> rather than throw a 403. I suggest 30[12] -> listinfo. > >I fixed it. Please test. wfm, thanks! -Barry ___

Re: [pydotorg-www] python-win32 mailing list: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.12

2012-01-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:49 PM, Michael Foord wrote: >Thanks I'll try and remember that for next time (although thankfully such >problems are rare). Would it be possible to update the error page to point >people to the postmaster address instead of the webmaster one? Probably, but I have no idea wh

Re: [pydotorg-www] python-win32 mailing list: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.12

2012-01-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 23, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Michael Foord wrote: >I believe this is your domain. I've copied in pydotorg-www as well just in >case there is anyone there who can prod the right bits. Thanks Michael. postmas...@python.org works best for stuff like this. I forwarded it (and will take a look if n

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fw: [Archiver-policy] Impact of SOPA?

2012-01-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 16, 2012, at 03:26 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: >postmaster hat on: >Yes, we can blackout mail for that time I think we'd also want to block archiver access to mail.python.org and throw up an informative page. Though if we do it, we should do it with all the python.org web sites

[pydotorg-www] Fw: [Archiver-policy] Impact of SOPA?

2012-01-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
I really almost hesitate to send this, not because I'm not entirely sympathetic to the cause, but because political discussions are always problematic and perhaps more so because of the PSF's non-profit status. Still, SOPA and the like are evil pieces of legislation that will have seriously dire co

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fw: [Python-Dev] svn.python.org certificate expired

2012-01-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:28 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Am 10.01.2012 09:46, schrieb Barry Warsaw: >> We should renew this even though svn is in read-only. > >Done. Patrick had generated a new one over Christmas, which I had >forgotten to install. Thanks guys! -Barry signatu

[pydotorg-www] Fw: [Python-Dev] svn.python.org certificate expired

2012-01-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
We should renew this even though svn is in read-only. -Barry Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:01:54 +0100 From: Charles-François Natali To: python-dev Subject: [Python-Dev] svn.python.org certificate expired Hi, All the buildbots are turning red because of test_ssl: """

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: broken links on SIG ULS

2012-01-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
This page: http://www.python.org/community/sigs/ says the uls-sig owner is Duncan McGreggor. Cc'd. -Barry On Jan 03, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Michael Foord wrote: >I'm not sure who the sig-owner is here. > >Michael > >Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "K. Sauceda" >> Subject: broken links on SIG

Re: [pydotorg-www] PythonLabs website

2011-10-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 05, 2011, at 10:27 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >The dark age of Python Labs had started. Go read the page. It will banish all the darkness. :) -Barry ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [pydotorg-www] PythonLabs website

2011-10-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 04, 2011, at 07:06 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >Continuing my nightly "whats the deal with …" spam, does anyone know what the >story with pythonlabs.com is? "pythonlabs.com" is NXDOMAIN, and >www.pythonlabs.com is pointed to GAE, but is serving the same content as >python.org/pythonlabs. Ad

Re: [pydotorg-www] release page

2011-10-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 04, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Michael Foord wrote: >On 29/09/2011 08:55, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> Hey there, >> >> on this page: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ >> >> it says 2.6.6 is the latest which is not true. > >It's the latest *binary release*, 2.6.7 was a source only release. But

Re: [pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

2011-07-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 27, 2011, at 06:17 PM, Carl Karsten wrote: >On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Jul 25, 2011, at 09:16 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >>>A wiki on a separate server would make that information >>>just as easily available, so I don'

Re: [pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

2011-07-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 25, 2011, at 09:16 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >A wiki on a separate server would make that information >just as easily available, so I don't really buy into that >argument of unorganized administrators (which I don't think >we have on python.org). You obviously haven't met any of our adminis

Re: [pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

2011-07-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Thomas Wouters wrote: >Barry, it seems many people with root access on (at least) dinsdale aren't >on roto-rooters. We should probably fix that, and make sure everyone is >added to ~psf/.ssh/authorized_keys on xs4all.nl so they can access the >remote console/powerswit

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python.org down

2011-07-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 16, 2011, at 01:35 PM, Michael Foord wrote: >Python.org and docs.python.org are currently down. pypi.python.org is up, so >*some* of our infrastructure is working... dinsdale is unresponsive to ssh, and I don't remember how to get the machine power cycled. -Barry signature.asc Descripti

Re: [pydotorg-www] FWD: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.12

2011-01-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 23, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Aahz wrote: > I see the same thing. Fixed. Somehow /srv/mailman/logs/error got g-w'd. I g+w'd and iwfm. -B ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] bugs.python.org down

2010-11-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 10, 2010, at 05:35 AM, s...@pobox.com wrote: >Martin> Am 10.11.2010 06:28, schrieb Aahz: >>> Tried to connect to bugs.python.org from two different machines, no joy. > >Martin> Can anybody reproduce this? works fine for me. > >Failed for me from montanaro.dyndns.org using Chrome