On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Jim Walker<James.Walker at sun.com> wrote: >> At the OGB meeting today we discussed the planned user roles and >> privileges[1]. There were several concerns raised. >> >> Others with follow-up with there concerns, but I would like to >> request the reasoning behind the decision to use the "Developer" >> and "Affiliate" term instead of the "Contributor" term in the >> Project and User Group collectives. >> >> Unless there is good reason for adding these new terms, I think the >> term "Contributor" should be used consistently across all collectives >> to reduce confusion and eliminating the possibility of community >> members interpreting that the role terminology implies different >> status or capabilities. The current model especially impacts community >> members that contribute to multiple collect types. >> >> Cheers, >> Jim >> >> [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/web/transition-roles-collectives/ > > I have two key concerns: > > 1. Whatever roles apply on the website should be completely independent > of governance. Neither should imply the other. Therefore connecting the > ability to do operations on the website with ones' constitutional voting > rights > is a mistake. (I note that the current auth app separates electoral > responsibilities > from website responsibilities - something that the above document doesn't make > clear.) > > 2. Similarly, standing within a collective should be independent of > website editing > rights. Collectives may wish to designate a small group of people (who > may simply > have an administrative role) to edit the website. Other models are possible.
I agree with Peter here. For example, we have many contributors to the security community, but I am not sure we want each & every one to have authorization to edit the webpages. We currently have not extended that right to all of our contributors. Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva/ @bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
