On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:06:06AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Because most people don't bother when they want to fix only a small > detail in a web page.
Well, when I want to fix a small detail in some other part of Debian, I usually send a mail or file a bug, I don't automatically think that I should get to do the change instantly. Yes, the web pages are "just" documentation, but I honestly don't see a problem in having a maintenance layer. I consider myself able to quickly edit most of the manual pages in Debian packages (or whatever else is so simple in all packages), but I don't think about doing NMUs, I let the other thousand people do MUs :) That's as far as the philosophical aspect goes... > Furthermore, the procedure to get www-acces is not > that clear... when I joined the group, I had to seriously dig in the > documentation to finally find a web page which wasn't even hosted on a > debian.org website at that time (Joey's page that apparently moved to > people.d.o in the mean time and that you have now listed in > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Webmaster). That's something they invented while I was on hiatus, I just noticed it a few days ago... I agree it's another bit of overhead, but it's just a bit. > I would also like the project to move away from CVS and > use something more friendly that can effectively enable bigger changes > (because it handles renames at least). That would actually help work around the philosophical problems. If we had a system which allowed finer-grained definitions of who gets to do what kind of a commit (e.g. I don't want to let 1000 people have access to /index.wml and you would probably understand why not), and one that helped translators not lose track when there's a conflict in the source (ability to easily mark revisions as not necessary to translate), that would make it easier to implement a loosening in permissions. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]