wiki.openqa.org

[Željko Filipin]

Hi,

I have noticed that wiki.openqa.org is full of spam. I have contacted Patrick Lightbody via e-mail as suggested at http://openqa.org/contacting.action, but I did not get any reply in a week. I have asked for admin privileges (or anything that would allow me to set up CAPTCHA or something like that) to prevent spam.

I have just sent him a tweet at @plightbo, maybe that will reach him.

Anybody knows another way to contact Patrick? Or, should I contact somebody else? Or,i s wiki.openqa.org not maintained any more?

Please let me know if I should send this to another list/group.

Željko Filipin

[Patrick Lightbody]

Heh - you're email got to me, it just hadn't gotten to the top of the stack. I'll follow up privately with you to get you squared away. The spam has been a big problem and, unfortunately, there is not a simple tool that is good at cleaning it up. But let's see what you can come up with and then let me know if you need more access (ie: direct DB access).

Patrick

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[Željko Filipin]

Patrick made me a wiki admin.

The first step was to turn on "admin must approve new users" feature. I will make sure to approve/reject new users in one business day.

The next thing I did is to make the wiki read only, except for the members of the project group. So, for example, if you are member of Selenium group, you will be able to do everything you were always able to do. All other wiki users will be able to read everything but will not be able to change anything.

The next thing is to clean up the spam, and there is a lot of it. If you want to help, let me know.

Željko

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[Željko Filipin]

I finally got some time to work on spam at wiki.openqa.org. All wikis there are flooded with spam, except Watir wiki, since I was deleting the spam there all the time.

I have contacted project leads, where I found contacts. I got a few replies so far, looks like nobody is using wiki.openqa.org any more. I plan to move Watir wiki to Github in the near future.

I was able to stop new spam but there is so much existing spam there that I think it would be the best just to delete the wiki. I have tried to clean up the spam manually but there is so much of it that I gave up.

Does anybody know if people are still using wiki.openqa.org? From what I have seen so far, the answer is no.

Željko

[Oscar Rieken]

Let me know if you need help moving to github. We could probably put some working examples up as well. I started something like this on derp-bear 

http://derp-bear.herokuapp.com/

https://github.com/orieken/derp-bear

https://github.com/orieken/derp-bear-rspec-watir-webdriver

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[Patrick Lightbody]

I'm interested in shutting down openqa.org similar to the gradual shut down I did for open symphony.com (see the page there now if you want to see where I think openqa should end up).

In looking at the projects, I can confirm that pyWinAuto and Bromine have found new homes and have been using an alternative to the wiki for some time. We can remove them safely.

WET has a new home (http://wet.qantom.org/docs_overview.html) but still links to the wiki. Not sure what we should do here.

Jave Testing Commons doesn't have a new home, but it doesn't look like there has been any activity in 5+ years. I think we can drop it.

Selenium on Rails doesn't have a new home, but it appears the website has been broken for years and no one even noticed. Let's drop it.

Session Tester doesn't have a new home either and there hasn't been a release in almost 4 years and no post to the forums in almost just as long. I think we can drop it.

Frankenstein looks like it sort of moved to Github and hasn't been worked on it a couple years, but it still links to the wiki too (https://github.com/vivekprahlad/frankenstein). The project seems pretty much inactive, but we should check with some ThoughtWorkers since I am finding more recent references to it around their Twist produt.

CubicTest does not have a new home and still links to the wiki, but the project is claimed to be dead and not actively worked out. Not sure what we should do here…

Probably the easiest thing to do is to email the owners of all these projects and tell them we're shutting down OpenQA in 3 months and see if anyone objects. Sound like a plan?

Patrick

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[Željko Filipin]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Oscar Rieken <bis...@gmail.com> wrote:

Let me know if you need help moving to github.

Thanks, I am still not sure what to do. :) I will try to make the move and see how it goes.

Željko

[Željko Filipin]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Patrick Lightbody <pat...@lightbody.net> wrote:

Probably the easiest thing to do is to email the owners of all these projects and tell them we're shutting down OpenQA in 3 months and see if anyone objects. Sound like a plan?

+1

Željko