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Danie Roux | 16 Mar 22:58

Investigating the effort it will take to get to Pier

Dear Webteam,

Has anyone here investigated/estimated the effort it would take to move to Pier?

I would like to do that investigation and put together some sort of action plan.

If I read the situation correctly, the biggest push for a technology
upgrade is twofold:

- Persistence right now is not ideal.
- We need an implementation of a CAPTCHA to stop spammers from
spamming via "Contact Us".

What did I miss? Some people suggested the look and feel should also
be considered during such an upgrade, but I don't think that is a
major driver.

If the Pier upgrade can be done successfully and smoothly, I would
want to do an integration to http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html to
stop the spammers.

Next steps then:
- Has anyone looked at a Pier upgrade?
- Shall I just grab the current image, start playing with it test the
viability of an upgrade?

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Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix - http://danieroux.com

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karl | 16 Mar 23:40

Re: Investigating the effort it will take to get to Pier

Danie Roux wrote:
> Dear Webteam,
>
> Has anyone here investigated/estimated the effort it would take to move to Pier?
>
> I would like to do that investigation and put together some sort of action plan.
>
> If I read the situation correctly, the biggest push for a technology
> upgrade is twofold:
>
> - Persistence right now is not ideal.
> - We need an implementation of a CAPTCHA to stop spammers from
> spamming via "Contact Us".
>   

Mostly right.

Some other points are Smallwiki mangles/inlines non ascii chars on 
saving/editing so if I put a &eacute; in a text, it will be lost if I 
edit the text again.

Pictures are hard to use as a link. I had to do some hoop jumping to 
make that work.

There is a Captcha for Smallwiki2 on SqueakSource which probably could 
be made to work for either Smallwiki or Pier.

I'm not sure about persistence options.

> What did I miss? Some people suggested the look and feel should also

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