On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 06:18:57PM +0100, Mitch Curtis wrote: > On Wednesday, December 05, 2012 05:15:34 PM Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote: > > On 5 December 2012 17:06, Mitch Curtis <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > How can I edit a FAQ at http://qt-project.org/faq? I have a devnet > > > account, but apparently that doesn't help. > > > > You can't, unless you're an admin. > > > > That's one of the many things that hopefully are going to change > > (cf. what's going on on web@ mailing list), but for now you must > > ask the admins to fix a FAQ for you. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ah. > > There is a thread about this on the forums [1], in which it was > suggested that posters with a rank of "Mad Scientist" [2] (10837 or > more posts, which is quite extreme in my opinion) should be able to > edit FAQs, which I think is a great idea.
It would certainly a step forward, as it makes editing at least possible. However, I don't think that having an FAQ with freely addible but essentially non-removable answers (which seem to have a tendency to get at least outdated, if not completely wrong, rather quickly) makes much sense in general. So it might be worth to spend a thought or two on alternative approaches. Like using the wiki. I also don't think that establishing a system in parallel to the existing Approver/Maintainers system is the best way to proceed. I actually doubt a lot of maintainers want to become mad, scientifically or not, just to be able to fix FAQ entries related to their field of work. I could imagine having one or more additional "official" roles in the "normal" system to take care of the non-code related tasks. One such role could be "Web Caretaker" with extra powers when it comes to web related stuff. That state should of course _not_ be automatic, i.e. without human approval, just because someone managed to add N comments to questions, correct or not. Andre' _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
