Project Owner Documentation
We have created a set of articles that should help project owners and project members facilitate the dotsrc.org services.
If you have any suggestions about articles that we should place in this section, please write staff@dotsrc.org.
Project Website
Introduction to setting up and managing a project website at dotsrc.org This article describers the different server-side technologies that are available.
The article also describes where files can be placed, how to reference to them and how they can be made inaccessible (useful for configuration files).
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Version Control
Dotsrc.org give project owners access to a version control repository based on either CVS or SVN (Subversion). This article describes how project members can get access to the repository and how users can use anonymous access (if project is configured to allow this) to download development versions of the project.
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Mailing Lists 1 - Administration
Project owners can ask the staff group to make a mailing list moderated to only allow certain people to post messages to it. Further the list can be closed so subscription has to be approved prior to being accepted on the list.
Finally the project owners can manipulate the messages sent out by the mailing list software when people subscribe, unsubscribe etc.
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Mailing Lists 2 - Usage
The mailing list software provide a set of commands that the list users can use to
- manage their subscription to the list
- retrieve messages from archive
Spam and Virus Defense
Short presentation of how dotsrc.org handle spam and virus in order to keep mailing lists and mail boxes free of as much spam and virus as possible.
Project owners can request that their mailing list is protected by a confirm-post setup.
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E-mail Accounts
Introduction to how project owners can setup e-mail accounts for project members and how each account owner can manage their own account using the e-mail account administration system.
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