[Project-managers] Mind your Trac pages

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Robin Lougee-Heimer wrote:

> How does the world locating the Trac pages?  There's no direct links to
> them on the project page, http://www.coin-or.org/projects.html.

There should be.  I'll add them when I create the pages.  Also see 
http://projects.coin-or.org/.

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> Is the site design for each project to have it's own webpage, and a
> pointer to the project's Trac page to be posted there?

And there as well, but the individual project page editors need to do 
that.  Some projects use the Trac pages as their home pages.  Some 
projects have off-site home pages.  And some projects may have off-site 
Trac pages (though that practice should be discouraged).

 		Matt


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> thanks,
> Robin
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> Robin Lougee-Heimer
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> Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>
> Sent by: project-managers-bounces at list.coin-or.org
> 04/14/2006 08:46 AM
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> 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
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> 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
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> nefarious content modification.  Unlike tickets, Wiki pages in Trac have
> no way to notify you when pages are modified.
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> We've had a couple of incidents of bots replacing our Trac home pages with
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> 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.
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> 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