Re: Is projects-old.gnome.org frozen?

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

2014-01-28 Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>

Hi,

I wanted to add a donate web page for LaTeXila, and for an obvious
reason, the Paypal link should not be on the wiki. So I added the page
to the gnomeweb-wml repository, but it seems that projects-old.gnome.org
is frozen.

projects-old.gnome.org is not the best place for such a web page though,
since it contains "old" in the URL. Is there a better solution? Like
restricting edit access to a wiki page?

Yes, projects-old.gnome.org is currently not open for modifications but it's there for historical reasons for the missing modules to be migrated safely to the wiki or to the other hosted services. That said, projects-old.gnome.org is supposed to go down in the near future (there's a GNOME Documentation hackfest happening as we talk and some of the missing documentation is being moved from projects.gnome.org to help / developer.gnome.org which should lead to projects-old.gnome.org being obsoleted) 

Sure, the wiki does support ACLs, you need two things to properly set up an ACL:

1. a defined group of members, like http://wiki.gnome.org/SysadminGroup

2. the ACL rule on the wiki page you want to protect, i.e

SysadminGroup:read,write,delete,admin,revert All:read

this will grant the accounts specified on SysadminGroup to read, write the content of the page (and eventually delete / revert it). "All:read" makes sure other accounts can read the specific page you are protecting with an ACL.

Let me know if you need more details on how to properly set this up. 

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Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

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