On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com>wrote:
> On Monday 30 March 2009 18:33:03 Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > if you agree to move the wiki to trac, I can guarantee zero spam - I > > > volunteer to set it up, host it and admin it - and also give admin > > > rights to other volunteers. > > > > 'trac' is a very good suggestion. Trac combines wiki's with roadmaps > > for code development. It uses standard version control systems. > > > > As far as I know it allows one to have different VCS's like git, > > mercurial and darcs in addition to the default svn. > > and my trac wiki on http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ is running for the > past > three years with zero spam > kenneth, few reasons why we should not use trac for chennailug.org 1. trac cannot be used because trac is meant for Project management and bug/issue tracking. whereas mediawiki is meant for creating collaborative content websites. earlier ilugc members used our mediawiki for various purposes like CD's for Grab etc. 2. our aim in maintaining wiki is to enable all of us to access and collaborate the events and happenings in ilugc. hence wiki is the suitable one. 3. we are not going to develop anything using ilugc website. hence trac is not needed. regarding control panel sh$t.... majority of hosting business is going because of that sh$t which you cannot disagree. regarding your 3 yrs and no spam trac code, how many people access it per day, per week, per month? spam occurs where there are lots of people. chennailug.org is being affected because 2k+ people have registered with site. shrinivasan, yes i know the issue. mailing list and drupal integration should be done. i will look for it. kapil, 1. if i am asking for control panel access rather than ssh, you should think why i am asking for that. there were issues for which ssh wont be the right think. a table in ilugc db consumed 3 GB of data for which if i do select query it wont display properly. my aim is to not learn ssh or mysql. for me data is important and my aim is to fix the site ASAP. hence i was looking for control panel access. 2. thanks for your suggestions on spam extn/plugins. i will try to use it. - balachandar muruganantham உலகம்.net - இலவச தமிழ் வலைப்பதிவுச் சேவை - http://ulagam.net எனது தமிழ் பக்கங்கள் - http://www.balachandar.net/pakkangal Beyond Work - http://beyondwork.wordpress.com/ "கரப்பவர்க்கு யாங்கொளிக்கும் கொல்லோ இரப்பவர் சொல்லாடப் போஒம் உயிர். " - குறள் எண் : 1070 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
