Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Steven Noels wrote: > > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: <snip what="stuff about wiki vandalism and annoyance"/> > > Different would be to have "f**k [insert your favorite public figure > here]" or child pornography passing thru the system, but in order to > happen, the chain of events that should happen are: > > 1) somebody does that kind of vandalism (so far, happened only a few > times) > 2) a moderator sends "reply-to" instead of "reply-to-all" and *NO > OTHER MODERATOR* does anything (the probability of this event is, IMO, > already rare, redundancy of moderation should also reduce errors)
Unless i am mistaken, when there are multiple moderators then the first moderation action wins and subsequent actions have no effect. Redundancy of moderators just ensures that multiple people are always watching. --David > 3) the change is approved, approuval email is sent back to the > moderators list and nobody goes to the backend of the system to revert > the changes for 24 hours (again, pretty unlikely that I would receive > an email that says "this change was accepted by "blah" see the diff > inside" and I would just sit and watch... the 24 hour period should be > enough to get at least one other moderator see it... keep in mind that > moderators don't need to be necessarely committers) > > It is not impossible that such a chain of events happen. But it is not > so prone to errors as it might seem at first sight. [well, at least > that's my impression, practice might prove me dead wrong] > > > > That workflow is designed to prevent the vandalist acts but > > > without slowing down the creative process. > > > > We definitely need some form of oversight. The current 'mass push' to > > a mailing list appears to be working quite well IMHO. > > We need "pre-emptive oversight" if we want to have the slight chance of > having the ASF infrastructure team allow us to use such a system in > practice. > > -- > Stefano. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
