Here's an article demonstrating many of these recommendations: http://datadesk.latimes.com/posts/2012/01/sphinx-on-github/
David On Monday, January 2, 2012 at 11:43 AM, David Siegel wrote: > Oisín, thank you for taking this on. > > I receive a few emails per month about this issue, and although I don't see > it as my concern since I haven't been involved in the project for a few > years, I do have some recommendations: > > * Move the project from Launchpad/Bazaar to GitHub/Git. > * Move the entire website, including the wiki, under version control. > * Create a Git-based workflow for contributing to and updating the website, > which reuses the same authentication and group permissions as the code host, > so that anyone can proposes merges for the website, and any contributor can > push updates to the live site. > > As far as the Git-based workflow is concerned, I would recommend porting the > existing site to a static site generator such as Jekyll or Middleman. If the > new website were build with one of these static generators, and hosted on > GitHub, we could use GitHub's static website serving (GitHub Pages) to > automatically serve the site from the Git repo. This would naturally inherit > GitHub's team authentication, solve the spam problem, and give us a much more > robust way to make and publish changes. > > David > > On Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I went to the Do website on davebsd.com (http://davebsd.com) today to look > > for some basic > > instructions on using Do. Eventually I found the instructions, but not > > before being totally bombarded by spam. So I cleaned up a few of the > > pages, reverting months of crud from spammers fighting each other. > > Checking again about 8 hours later, there were already a bunch more > > new pages created by spambots. > > If nobody has time to install some kind of Captcha tool or something, > > then maybe new page creation should be disabled, or even all edits to > > the wiki other than by one or two admins? > > > > Also it would be nice to update the version info - at the moment it > > says the last release was in 2009, and the immediate impression the > > site gives is that the project is dead, which it apparently is not! :) > > > > p.s. Happy new year! > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "GNOME Do" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en.
