Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>]

> Agree...I would vote to turn off passwords for now...and see what
> happens. I don't think there are enough people committing or  
> looking at
> the wiki to create that much spam, but maybe I'm wrong.


I think you just need to have an account to edit right now, and that  
requirement was put in place because of spam problems.  Since anyone  
can create an account, and this has reduced (although admittedly not  
eliminated) our wiki spam, it seems like a reasonable policy.

NRY

> > > A question that I have is the use of SourceForge as a base for  
> > > the code
> > > at the moment. Personally I have explicitly chosen not to use
> > > SourceForge because of it becoming sluggish and less flexible.  
> > > I'm using
> > > berlios.de, a german based FLOSS deposit and it feels a lot less  
> > > sluggy
> > > than SF.
> >
> > Yeah, their mailing list archives suck (hence the ibiblio cc-devel
> > list), but we don't have the bandwidth to maintain developer
> > infrastructure internally, and I haven't seen anything so  
> > compelling as
> > to justify the pain of moving (but I can be convinced).
>
> gmane also sucks up the sf.net archives, so that they are searchable,
> graphed, and google-able.
>
> Jon
>
>
> >
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