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=== Tuesday 14th July 2009 ===

==== Trac SpamFilter Plugin ====

My [[Trac:|repository trac instance]] has recently attracted the interest of a pill-spammer, so I
installed `trac-spamfilter-plugin` with a view to making life awkward for the spammer. Whilst it was
easy enough to install, I had a few issues with it.

 * The checkbox to enable ''Logging'' consistently forgot it should be checked, though the setting in `trac.ini` was correct (TracUpstream:ticket/6130)
 * Even though I had enabled ''Logging'', nothing was getting logged, which in turn meant that I had to manually train the Bayes classifier

This latter problem turned out to be due to the (default) assumption by the [[TracUpstream:wiki/SpamFilter|SpamFilter plugin]] that
authenticated users are to be trusted, i.e. not to have their submissions vetted by the spam filter.
This assumption doesn't hold true when, as in my case, the [[TracHacks:wiki/AccountManagerPlugin|AccountManager plugin]] is
used to enable users to register themselves. The spammer was registering himself (or herself) and using the newly-created
account to spam the wiki. This behaviour can be turned off, but not using the Admin pages in a browser. Instead, the following option
needs to be added in the `[spam-filter]` section of `trac.ini`:
{{{
[spam-filter]
trust_authenticated = false
}}}
It's also necessary to make test submissions from an account that doesn't have `TRAC_ADMIN` permission - admins bypass the spam filter too, and that can't be turned off.

==== Fedora Project ====

 * Became co-maintainer of `trac-spamfilter-plugin` (with FedoraProject:JesseKeating) and updated F-11 and Rawhide to svn revision 8330

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `contagged` to 0.7.0 (adds WikiPedia:QR_Code support)
 * Updated `perl-Test-ClassAPI` to 1.06 (build system and test changes, nothing functional)
 * Updated `python-setuptools` to fix its inability to handle `subversion` checkouts made with `subversion` 1.6 ([[RedHatBugzilla:511021|Bug #511021]])

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