Thilo, the main OSCAR webpage is updated with "How can I contribute?" thing now. http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar
How do you feel about that? Regards, Thilo Bangert wrote: > DongInn Kim skrev: >> OK, Thilo. >> >> I understand what your original mail meant for now. Basically I don't like >> to have two different accounts for our systems even though a user can setup >> the accounts to become same on SVN and trac. OSCAR users/developers who >> actually participate in the development/improvement of OSCAR should have >> only one account which can take care of all the access issues of the OSCAR >> system. >> >> Currently we use SVNManger to manage the SVN accounts/repositories/groups >> and I think we can differentiate the permission in between SVN and trac >> account so that any user who creates accounts from SVNManager can access >> both OSCAR SVN repo and trac with the same login information. We should >> however notice that the OSCAR SVN repo(trunk) is open to the public with >> read-only permission and the SVN account who has been created via SVNManager >> has no different privileges from anonymous users but trac access. >> > > ah - i see. good to understand some of the background... thanks. > >> I think there is a drawback in this system that any anonymous user can not >> create an account without the admin's approval, which may have hindered the >> OSCAR community from participating in the OSCAR development but this has >> been good enough to take care of the access issues so far, I think. >> >> Do you think that it is too much hassle for the OSCAR community to ask the >> system admin for the account approval if anyone wants to participate? >> > > it's a trade off. i do think, that needing admin approval may discourage > some contributers from reporting their bugs. but it would still be ways > ahead of the current state, where it isnt evident on how one can get > such an account... > > perhaps just having a page which describes how one can get an account by > sending a request to you(?) would be enough. > > kind regards > Thilo > >> Regards, >> >> - DongInn >> >> On 7/24/09 4:57 AM, Thilo Bangert wrote: >>> Kim, DongInn skrev: >>>> Hi Thilo, >>>> >>>> Are you talking about the trac ticket systems on the >>> > oscar official website? >>> >>> yes. >>> >>>> If it is a trac configuration and you have a good >>> > suggestion on the trac configuration, please let us know. >>> >>> currently the trac instance uses http authtication, possibly using the >>> same user db as for svn. that means only users with an svn account can >>> authenticate with trac. or reversed: all trac users also get a svn account. >>> >>> there are two possibilities to enable trac participation for people who >>> shouldnt (yet) have a svn account: >>> >>> a) keeping the account settings as they are, but open up ticket and >>> wiki creation and editing to anonymous users. this is bad as it >>> opens the trac instance to spam. >>> b) separate the svn and trac accounts. developers would get 2 accounts, >>> one for trac and one for svn. regular users would be able to create >>> their own trac accounts with the trac AuthManager plugin. >>> >>> its solution b) i am proposing. >>> >>> I think it would open up for more community participation and help >>> organize the current influx of bug reports. >>> >>>> If it is not what a trac user can do, I think we have to talk to the trac >>>> developers. >>> no need for that, AFAICT. >>> thanks >>> >>> kind regards >>> Thilo >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Oscar-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Oscar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel -- - DongInn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
