[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-Wiki Account registration

[Ashley Yakeley]

Henning Thielemann wrote:
> 
> How long will the Wiki account registration be disabled? Would it be 
> possible to ask a question, that real Haskellers could easily answer, 
> but a spambot cannot? E.g. "What's Haskell's surname?"

It will be re-enabled when an appropriate extension to MediaWiki is 
installed.

An appropriate extension will be installed when MediaWiki is upgraded to 
a version that supports that.

MediaWiki will be upgraded when PHP and MySQL are upgraded.

MySQL cannot easily be upgraded on the existing distribution (RHEL AS 3 
update 9 with Linux 2.4.21), as various other packages depend on the 
current version. MySQL will be upgraded when we have a more up-to-date 
distribution (for instance, Debian 4.0).
http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2009-January/020916.html

We will have a more up-to-date distribution when a new machine takes 
over from the existing machine at Yale.

I don't know when anyone will have a new machine.

This is an overview of which machine does what:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell.org_domain

-- 
Ashley Yakeley