On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Mike Kupfer wrote: >>>>>> "Laurent" == Laurent Blume <laurent at opensolaris.org> writes: > > Laurent> That view sounds simple, however, the issue is that you're not > Laurent> a Contributor because you edit pages. You're a Contributor > Laurent> because you've been designated as one, as defined by the > Laurent> Constitution. > > Well, you're a Contributor because you have been recognized as "having > substantively contributed toward accomplishing the tasks of that > Community Group".[1] So at the Community Group level, I guess there's a > potential bootstrapping problem, in that one way to contribute is to > help maintain the web presence, but you need Contributor status first. > > But in most cases, I'd expect that the person would have gotten > Contributor status by starting out doing something else, like > contributing to a project or participating on mailing lists. I agree > that it's *possible* that the person wouldn't already have Contributor > status, but I think it unlikely. So I don't see this as a > serious-enough problem that it would require changes to the initial > XWiki-based deployment. > > AFAICS, the Constitution doesn't define what it means to be a project > Contributor. That leaves it up to the project leaders to decide who's a > (project) Contributor, doesn't it? > > Maybe it would help the discussion for Valerie to give more details > about the situations she mentioned (with respect to editing > security-related web pages).
Sorry for the delay, project work has kept me busy. Specifically, we have a lot of people that we consider "contributors" or even "core contributors" based on their contributions to security. Some are white papers they publish on their own, but using our technology, others are code contributions, etc. but we want our web pages to look/feel a certain way, so we only have a handful of editors. In fact, one of our editors doesn't even want contributor status. Somewhere on this thread, I did see rollback ability being mentioned, which would help allay some of these fears. I'm just saying in our practice very few people have edit rights - and that also varies by project, I believe. Currently, we have one person working on a major revamp of the site. If all our contributors were editors, too, that would interfere with her work. I've found most people are not interested in updating the main pages for our site. Perhaps others have different experience? I wonder what other facilitators think? Maybe the worry is unjustified - perhaps most people won't care that they can edit the pages, because they have other work to do :) Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva/ @bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
