[rkward-devel] Status update

[Prasenjit Kapat]

Hi Thomas,

Good to have you back :)

On 9/14/07, Thomas Friedrichsmeier
<thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> a quick status update, while I'm trying to catch up with all the mail in my
> inbox:
>
> 1 - RKWard 0.4.7a is incompatible with the upcoming R 2.6.0. R 2.6.0 alpha is
> already in debian unstable, and causing rkward to break, there. I've prepared
> a fixed debian package, and hope it will be uploaded to debian, soon.
> For the rest of the world, R 2.6.0 is scheduled to be released on October 3. I
> suggest we should try to release RKWard 0.4.8 in roughly the same timeframe,
> giving us about two and a half weeks to get everything to a presentable
> state.

Sounds good. I'll try to do some testing in the meanwhile...

> 2 - I'll need a bit of help to get back up to speed. I'd like to ask you to
> 2a - If you are aware of any pending issues that I should have a look at soon,
> please give me a note. If I have not responded, yet, most likely I simply did
> not see them, or forgot about them.

One problem on my 64-bit home machine (Debian/Sid/amd64) which has
been there for a long time: the workspace browser does not list the
variables in .GlobalEnv(). I will take this up in a different thread,
so more information there.. I'll do so when I get back home tonight.

[snip]

> 3 - Spam has reached fairly annoying levels, both on the mailing list, and in
> the wiki (yesterday I spent more than an hour to clean up the wiki). If you
> have suggestions on how to deal with this, that would be nice. Right now, I'm
> playing with two ideas:
> 3a - For the wiki: Do not allow to create new users any more. New users will
> have to be created manually by a trusted user. Of course this defies some
> important advantages of having a wiki in the first place, but at the moment,
> the effort to contain the spam is just getting out of hands.

I am not aware of the techincal difficulties, so just a passing
suggestion: Should it help to use 'captcha codes' during the new user
registration as is done on many sites these days?

> Either way, it
> would also be nice, if some of you could volunteer to act as Sysops for the
> wiki. That is, I'll give you some additional rights, so you can delete spam
> pages and block spam accounts. Then, maybe every once in a while, you could
> take a look at the "Recent Changes" page in the wiki, and clear up any
> vandalism that you can find.
> 3b - For the mailing list: I suggest to restrict (unmoderated) posting to
> subscribers. I'd also like to make a number of you moderators in this case,
> so legitimate posts by non-subscribers can be admitted to the list in due
> time.

As I had mentioned a long time back, I volunteer to so some of the
weeding stuff :( Let me know the procedure...

> Of course, all kinds of different suggestions are welcome.
>
> Regards
> Thomas

Regards
PK