Hi all, im forwarding this email from openlayers dev list because i think it concearn us, GeoExt devs also
>>> >>> On Dec 7, 2010, at 6:11 AM, ext Roald de Wit wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Identity theft is a matter of concern these days. Wouldn't making people's >>>> signatures publicly available add to this? >>> >>> This is the reason that CLAs are not in SVN: both signatures (where they are >>> provided) and addresses seemed like information that we would be better off >>> not publishing. >>> >>> I don't have a better suggestion right now, but that was the original >>> reason. >> Ive recently signed CLA for GeoExt, and I also didn't like that all my data were publicly available in GeoExt SVN repository. So I guess we have the same issue for GeoExt. Wouldn't it be smart to temp. remove that directory until the solution is found? Or put some censorship on the data? Regards, Ivan >> Can we control access? >> >> I'm sure I can dig around the OSGeo machine and find out for myself - so I >> apologize for asking before trying. > > You probably don't actually have access to that machine :) SVN is hosted on > the centralized > SVN/trac server. > >> Limiting a portion of the repo to the PSC seems like a sensible measure. > > I don't know if that's possible. Asking on the SAC list if anyone else has > done it > would be appropriate. The only private SVN stuff I'm aware of for osgeo is a > totally > separate repo, which I wanted to avoid the maintenance hassle of. > > -- Chris > >> Tim >> >>> -- Chris >>> >>>> Regards, Roald >>>> >>>> On 07/12/10 04:51, Tim Schaub wrote: >>>>> I think it would make sense to maintain digital copies of contributor >>>>> agreements in our repository. The record keeping process is a bit opaque >>>>> to me at this point, and I think it would benefit us in the future to >>>>> have a more accessible place for these documents. I assume we forward >>>>> signed copies to OSGeo, but maintaining them next to the code makes sense >>>>> to me as well. >>>>> >>>>> Going forward, would others be in favor of maintaining digital copies of >>>>> CLAs in subversion? >>>>> >>>>> Tim >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
