On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
> Peter Tribble wrote:
>>
>> As I understand it, each community group has a matching electorate
>> collective.
>
> Yes.
>>
>> What's the rule for granting write access to the data in those
>> electorate collectives?
>
> Facilitators would be most efficient mechanism to handle this data entry
> task for their CGs.

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

>> Presumably *not* the same as for the auth data in the regular collective.
>
> Correct. Leaders would not have access to the Electorate data. Only
> Facilitators.

My recollection here is that auth/the new website didn't model the
facilitator role.

I think you've answered the primary question though - in the same way
that the electorate data is distinct from the regular CG data, edit access
is also distinct.

>> I think the scheme is fine; my concern would be ensuring that only
>> "approved"
>> users (presumably the facilitators would be) can edit the data -
>
> The constitution says that the OGB appoints the CG Facilitators, so,
> presumably, they would be approved by the board.

As facilitators; the role as currently used is a communication conduit,
adding grant editing would be an extension that may or may not be
a good thing.

>> and presumably
>> the OGB secretary would get update access to everything, just in case a
>> facilitator is unavailable for whatever reason.
>
> We could consider granting the OGB secretary access to the individual
> Electorates as an RFE for next year. In the meantime, if a Facilitator is
> not available to enter the data, we can make the update manually on our end
> until the OGB appoints a new Facilitator or the current Facilitator becomes
> available.

I would expect that we would start out with the OGB secretary being the
only person with admin rights; they could then grant edit rights to others.

(One thing that would be nice is the ability to give someone edit rights
[or even admin rights] to *all* electorate collectives. Would make the
transfer to a new secretary, or a temporary standin, or a membership
committee, much easier.)

>> And presumably there's a log
>> that's accessible so that we can review who's done what.
>
> A log can be provided, but as I explained earlier the relationships data
> will be displayed in the open shortly. So, that would include CG-P sponsor
> relationships, Contributors, Core Contributors, etc.

At a minimum, a change history is necessary. You can't see what actions
have been taken without it. I don't want to have to visit every electorate
collective page and manually try and work out who's been added in the
last week.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/

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