Re: git.wiki.kernel.org spam ...

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Jan 4, 2013, 23:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20130104234759.GC6501@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1301050022000.32206@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>

On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 12:27:12AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> I was. John Hawley trusted me when I asked for admin privileges to keep
> the spam at bay, but a very vocal voice on the mailing list tried to
> discredit my work, and in the wake of the ensuing mailing list thread I
> got the impression that that feeling was universal, so I abided and
> stopped.
> 
> > this leaves me a little confused. who would be then be responsible? who
> > would be responsible for upgrading / installing anything at the wiki?
> 
> That would be John Hawley.

John is one of the Linux Foundation staff members that are responsible for the system administration of wiki.kernel.org (and kernel.org, and bugzilla.kernel.org, etc.) They are *not* responsible for the contents of the *.wiki.kernel.org; someone from the project has to be the wiki maintainer.

(Note: the *.wiki.kernel.org infrastructure was originally set up at my request, and the first such hosted wiki was ext4.wiki.kernel.org; the second was rt.wiki.kernel.org, for which I was also the primary wiki administrator initially. I'm confident the policy on this hasn't changed since those early days because LF sysadmins (e.g., John and Konstantin) do *not* have time to police the various wikis for spam....)

	      	    	      	 - Ted