[Project-managers] Mind your Trac pages

[Matthew Saltzman]

If your project has a Trac page (every project in Subversion does, and 
most that don't already will shortly), it would be a good idea to check in 
on it every so often to make sure the content is OK.  Remember that Wikis 
are open to editing by anybody so there is no sure-fire protection against 
nefarious content modification.  Unlike tickets, Wiki pages in Trac have 
no way to notify you when pages are modified.

We've had a couple of incidents of bots replacing our Trac home pages with 
spam.  If your page has serious problems with these automated attacks, we 
can put measures in place that can slow them down, but it would still be 
possible for human indivduals to edit the pages.  We are an open 
community, so I think that closing Wiki pages to all editing by community 
members should be a last resort.

Thanks for your diligence.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs