See: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3496 Problem ======= 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 ======== 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 ========================== Please update to that version.
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
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.
@Matthias, do you have info on the current status?
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 915390 ***