>>>>> "Laurent" == Laurent Blume <[email protected]> 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). Laurent> Also, a Contributor status never expires. So using it as a Laurent> reference (if there were a list of them, beside the list of Laurent> people who signed the SCA) would mean that the number of people Laurent> allowed to edit would only increase, never decrease over time. But in practice, I don't see that as a problem. From what I've read, it's not a problem with wikis in general, and it doesn't seem to have been a problem so far with our use of the wiki on genunix.org. Laurent> Even an occasional edit would need a SCA, and would qualify to Laurent> be a Contributor. And since verifying the SCA has been signed Laurent> is mandatory for Sun to get work done on the web pages, I don't Laurent> see how that can be done in any other way than per-user? I'm not sure I follow you here. Are you saying that someone could get Contributor status without having signed an SCA, but that Sun would want an SCA on file before the person is allowed to edit pages? mike Footnotes: [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/#ARTICLE_III.__Structure.2C_Participation.2C_and_Roles _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
