Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
Trying to keep the thread alive ... On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Jim Perrin jper...@centos.org wrote: On 01/23/2014 03:03 PM, Paul Mansfield wrote: given that getting people to write documentation at all requires a lot of effort, putting so many impediments in their way doesn't make

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/26/2014 04:19 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: Would it be plausible to set up a Wiki management group that consists of CentOS admins and contributors? I'd like to use the CentOS forums as an example. The new site now requires that every new user's post be approved by a moderator. New posts come in

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-26 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 26 January 2014 20:32, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 01/26/2014 04:19 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: Would it be plausible to set up a Wiki management group that consists of CentOS admins and contributors? I'd like to use the CentOS forums as an example. The new site now requires

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/26/2014 08:44 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: Isnt the Editorial Group meant to address this specifically ? In theory, yes. In practice we can't -- due to the problem of lack of privilege for editing ACL lines. moin has cascading acl's - so we could have a setup where people with aCL's on

[CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread David Nalley
Hi folks, I'd like to request access to the CentOS wiki for the purpose of adding CloudStack-related CentOS documentation. username: DavidNalley Thanks, --David ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Karsten Wade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2014 10:35 AM, David Nalley wrote: Hi folks, I'd like to request access to the CentOS wiki for the purpose of adding CloudStack-related CentOS documentation. username: DavidNalley Thanks, This all fits in to the overall

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Karsten Wade kw...@redhat.com wrote: Speaking of which, do we have any writing standards for using the wiki? Anything to point new contributors to? Such as: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Help:Editing If it is about syntax, I know of this wiki page:

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Karsten Wade kw...@redhat.com wrote: I'd also think is a contributor in another SIG to possibly be good enough, too. A contributor is someone who is doing work that is being checked and approved by a committer. I would think the barrier to being able to write to the wiki should be lower than

[CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread R P Herrold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Karsten Wade kw...@redhat.com wrote: snip What's all this about SIGs, contributors, and committers? The CentOS Wiki didn't use to work that way. This is part of a piece I sent this to Karsten

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Paul Mansfield
Historically, to get rights on the CentOS wiki, one had to have a: given that getting people to write documentation at all requires a lot of effort, putting so many impediments in their way doesn't make sense. I had a few things I wanted to add to the wiki, by the time I managed to get a

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Jim Perrin
On 01/23/2014 03:03 PM, Paul Mansfield wrote: Historically, to get rights on the CentOS wiki, one had to have a: given that getting people to write documentation at all requires a lot of effort, putting so many impediments in their way doesn't make sense. This is part of what we're

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
R P Herrold wrote: Historically, to get rights on the CentOS wiki, one had to have a: - have subscribed to the -docs ML - registered with CamelCase wikiname - optionally set up a homepage (doing so required asking for limited rights

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Karsten Wade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2014 01:17 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: R P Herrold wrote: Historically, to get rights on the CentOS wiki, one had to have a: - have subscribed to the -docs ML - registered with CamelCase wikiname - optionally set up a homepage (doing

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Karsten Wade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2014 12:53 PM, R P Herrold wrote: This is part of a piece I sent this to Karsten earlier today: Karsten: Speaking of which, do we have any writing standards for using the wiki? Anything to point new contributors to? Historically,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/23/2014 06:35 PM, David Nalley wrote: Hi folks, I'd like to request access to the CentOS wiki for the purpose of adding CloudStack-related CentOS documentation. Done, you should have edit rights to your homepage at /DavidNalley and to the CloudStack rsource page at /Cloud/CloudStack

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for access to wiki

2014-01-23 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/23/2014 08:41 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Karsten Wade kw...@redhat.com wrote: I'd also think is a contributor in another SIG to possibly be good enough, too. A contributor is someone who is doing work that is being checked and approved by a committer. I would think the barrier to