Re: [H-source-users] Introduction

[Yuchen Pei]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the reply!
Ian Gilfillan <ian@greenman.co.za> writes:

> On 2021/07/19 02:34, bill-auger wrote:
> > > * Less maintain burden
> > it already requires basically zero maintenance - that is
> > evident by the fact that it has been un-maintained for several
> > years, yet it is still running
>
> Unfortunately I don't have time to contribute beyond the trivial 
> right
> now, but some comments on maintenance:
>
> - there's quite a bit of spam being submitted on h-node, which I
>   occasionally clean out. Yesterday, there were three spam wiki 
>   pages 
> created. Issues and comments are regular targets. There is only 
> one
> other moderator who also sometimes helps out. The current site 
> 'works' 
> in this sense, but as far as I know doesn't sent out email
> notifications about updates, and more could be done to reduce 
> spam and
> reduce the maintenance burden on moderators, as well as improve 
> the
> appearance of the site, which quite often sits with visible spam 
> for a
> while.

How do I remove spam? Do I need to create an admin account for 
myself on the server?

> - the only regular code maintenance required is updating the 
> list of
>   operating systems, as pointed out elsewhere on this 
>   thread. With 
> h-source and the h-node code being so out of sync, I used to do 
> this
> manually on the server (Trisquel 9 at least needs to be added)

Is this what the files in MySQL_changelog 
<https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/h-source.git/tree/h-source/MySQL_changelog> 
are for?

> - I abandoned my attempt to get the h-node and h-source code in 
> sync
>   due to time constraints. The differences were quite large, old
>  software version requirements became an obstacle, and quite a 
>  few
> changes had been made directly on the server. My preference as 
> the
> easiest option was to make a clean start based on the current 
> h-node
> code.

AIUI this is the current plan.

Best,
Yuchen
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