On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 11:30:41 AM UTC-8, Majken Connor wrote: > Ruben is paid staff and not on council, but because of the current > restrictions on posting to blog.mozilla.org our council cannot blog for > themselves. Core volunteers cannot speak for their teams. Only paid staff. > > I'd like to know if anyone is working on a solution to this problem, and if > so I'd like to be sure that solving this problem is a priority, not a "nice > to have." I'd also like to understand how these sorts of restrictions were > implemented in the first place so that we can avoid using the same > justifications to make similar decisions in the future.
Volunteers can indeed post to blogs but it's not immediately obvious how to give them access. The Mozilla blog network uses our LDAP system as a sort of central pool of pre-vouched users but a user still needs to be granted access to a specific blog (not everyone has access to every blog). But apart from LDAP, it's also possible to add a "local user" to a blog without them having an LDAP account. If you're a logged-in blog administrator, go to Users > Add New and enter the new user's email address. It will first search the LDAP system for that user, but if it doesn't find a match in LDAP you'll then be prompted to add a local user instead. There's no indication of this until you try it, so you kind of have to force it to fail before you can add a local user. Not the smoothest user experience, to be sure. It's not possible for new users to register themselves and only blog admins can add/remove/edit users. If you're not an admin and want to add a new user to a particular blog (or request access for yourself) you can file a bug under Other Products > Websites > blog.mozilla.org. We might ask for someone else to vouch for the new user. After all, posting to an official Mozilla blog is essentially speaking on behalf of Mozilla so we do need to keep an eye on who has access to what. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
