wiki:SiteUpgradeProposal

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Site Upgrade Proposal

This page documents the proposed work for upgrading trac-hacks.org from 0.10.6dev to 0.12.3 or 1.0.

Open Issues

There are a number of open defects and enhancements that we may want to address during the upgrade. Here are some specific ones that we may want to give higher priority:

  • Many plugins don't have a license. An idea outlined in #9805 is to force the user to either specify a license or accept a default license when creating a NewHack.
  • Spam continues to be a problem. Upgrading to the t:SpamFilter might improve the issue, but captcha used there can be frustrating experience and we don't want to risk driving away users.
    • A related issue is that many tickets are created by anonymous and anonymous often does not follow-up when more information or feedback is requested. We could require users to create an account before they can create a ticket, which might cut down on newticket spam as well as these abandoned tickets.
  • There are a number projects that are no longer maintained, have been supplanted by another project and are just taking up space at this point.
    • We should have a process for removing old projects. Perhaps we should have a policy of reviewing and voting on them, a notification should be placed on the page and then a prescribed waiting period elapsed before eventually deleting them. Obsolete plugins with no license would have even more reason to be deleted (see also #9805).
    • Projects that have no source, often because the links to an external site are dead, are being tagged with tag:nosource.

Policies

On several occasions questions have come up about proper use of the site and how it should be administered. This suggests we need more site policies, and the philosophy of trac-hacks suggests that these policies be formed by the community.

  • LicensingPolicies page that describes the proper way to document the license for a plugin.
  • Page that describes proper promotion and what types of external links are allowed, similar to t:TracUsers#guidelines.

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