From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7786 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2014 20:58:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 7775 invoked by uid 89); 14 Feb 2014 20:58:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-vc0-f170.google.com Received: from mail-vc0-f170.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f170.google.com) (209.85.220.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:58:27 +0000 Received: by mail-vc0-f170.google.com with SMTP id hu8so9898149vcb.29 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:58:25 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=no8eFEgNQsSedWKWWwbYh09zm+NdgsHAKzfGeTz61bk=; b=QFkKkg1sSOxr7tLvpHaVxhLt8GU+Nffb1MS2Vkf3hoSVfQcTzWj8QrcQk4w1c0CsRl DvGPjg0mqqpaQ1ogW0xXb7UeM88Xl8pYzek791NiUqrCV2ZpAI0Ar2A/xpLawHYXV0wQ 8S1NT4NR15y8x7OIA6PL7vorRTQWD4s+OxuOaJJdk2QAzMn2LggYZN5x6yNsQWEbII0u p9xCrlIQ3AQVuK2T8wQ+NXSl2vScO4nC1eyTdVhWs80AVrFek5dzqX9NmpNcS7Gykcqo qSfoekiFbN8iUtTqXvVP620OA6hyCjpxDEnFSAhxjW71TBnicA+Q6VvIHHk+l4RLgZUC VUQQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnSSixPXxzr8/CqoeZuwHVtLtoloN/uhEHOrhqQV2sQykJ/nHn9waobzd9SE2kzJSeX9FreaO0XjdEb6zsEPPzw05iiLZpOBPm0IxmUfhyfLztx2sdVAlStKsiG83WUkbnTIskfMap7vi+VW0kvyhTc3a5s3yreoYickDb1/Ly692vbtBBVguku/J376wd06H8fBkME MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.165.101 with SMTP id yx5mr2179717vdb.29.1392411505450; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:58:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.51.234 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:58:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52FE61DD.6010000@earthlink.net> References: <20140214030759.GC5485@adacore.com> <52FE61DD.6010000@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:58:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GDB Wiki] Add editor privilege control From: Doug Evans To: Stan Shebs Cc: gdb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00041.txt.bz2 On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Stan Shebs wrote: > On 2/13/14 7:07 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to protect our wiki from spammers who regularly use it >> for their own purposes by adding read,write,delete,revert privileges >> to only known members of the GDB community. The model I'd like >> to follow is the model used in the GDB Wiki. See: >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EditorGroup >> >> The idea is that we start with a list of people who are allowed >> to edit. If anyone who's a legitimate contributor wants to edit >> the wiki as well, one of the users already in the group simply adds >> their name to the list. > > I considered that a while back, when learning enough about MoinMoin > to suck in the old internals manual, but decided against it; we > don't have very many spammers to begin with, and the antispam > subsystem forestalls most of those, with the net effect that we've > had to do only two manual reverts in the past three months. > > If we were getting multiple spams per day, limiting to registered > members would make sense, but right now it doesn't seem necessary. Yeah, I guess it's a question of what threshold of spam needs to be crossed before we take this step. I'm ok with taking the step. I don't have a strong opinion on whether now is the time.