On 05.12.2012 20:37, André Pönitz wrote: > 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.
The problem here is that the qt-project.org website has its own accounts that are in no way related to the accounts used by the bugtracker/gerrit. Till we get single sign-on the current approach based on reputation earned on the developer network site actually seems ok to me. It is a bit more automatic than the approver/moderator system in gerrit, but so far it seems to mostly work. You do _not_ get moderator rights on the devnet site automatically. You are required to get a certain rank to request it, but that is all. > 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. Basically there are "social" (moderate forums, etc.) and "technical" (implement single sign-on for devnet/gerrit/jira) roles here. Those need to be handled differently and have very different prerequisites for granting those roles to people. I am fine with automatically acquired roles for some of the minor social functions (like being able to request groups, start posting topics, etc.), but not for major ones (like being a moderator of a large section of the site). We will also need a non-automatic system for the technical side of things. IMHO this should be similar to the approver/maintainer system we have in place for Qt code. Please consider to join the [email protected] mailing list if you are interested in how to bring forward open governance on the qt-project.org website. Best Regards, Tobias -- Tobias Hunger, Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Anja Wasenius Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. USt-IdNr: DE xxx xxx xxx Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
