Bug 862866

Summary: update to askbot 0.7.43+
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Matthew Miller <mattdm>
Component: askbotAssignee: Rahul Sundaram <metherid>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Matthew Miller 2012-10-03 19:13:25 UTC 
See: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3496


Problem
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We have a lot of spam in Ask Fedora. This is bad because:

* spam is evil
* it makes the site look unmaintained
* it buries real questions and answers 

Analysis
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Askbot 0.7.43 introduces a "basic moderation" feature (​http://askbot.org/doc/moderation.html) which will help mitigate the problem by allowing site members in good standing to flag and, given enough reputation, even delete spam posts.

Enhancement recommendation
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Please update to that version.
Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2012-10-03 19:15:22 UTC 
One concern is that apparently upgrading Askbot involves running a database sync command, the changelog for 0.7.40 includes "New data models!!!", which makes me cautious about introducting an upgrade to EPEL.

http://askbot.org/doc/initialize-database-tables.html?highlight=upgrade

http://askbot.org/doc/changelog.html
Comment 2 Matthias Runge 2012-12-14 09:25:55 UTC 
I'd recommend to wait, until askbot supports Django-1.4. Django-1.3 is being deprecated by upstream, when django-1.5 is released. That'll be around Christmas 2012.
Comment 3 Rahul Sundaram 2013-02-05 23:26:49 UTC 
@Matthias, do you have info on the current status?
Comment 4 Matthias Runge 2013-02-06 08:12:07 UTC 
Django-1.5 is expected in two weeks or so;
we have Django14 and django (version 1.3) in EPEL.

The changelog lists, Django-1.4 is supported now; I don't know, if there's a migration between different database versions. Also, I think dependencies have changed. Just updating in EPEL will break peoples installations.
Comment 5 Rahul Sundaram 2013-02-25 17:41:18 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 915390 ***