On 07.08.2011 18:30, Rob Weir wrote:
As mentioned before I'm concerned with the concentration of power on
the wiki, with a few moderators/admins having arbitrary power over
content, even though they have not signed the iCLA, are not committers
and have not been appointed by the PPMC. So there is arbitrary
authority, with no accountability. Having a system like this
abdicates the PPMC's responsibility for providing oversight to our
Apache-hosted project websites.
I posted a new FAQ on the wiki today. This was to demonstrate that
anyone could post anything on the wiki, under any license.
The post was quickly taken down and my account was permanently
blocked. This was done by someone who is not a PPMC member. In fact
this was a person who recently announced that he was leaving the
project because they had no time to participate. But evidently there
is no process for removing someone's super-user permissions once they
claim to have left the project. There was no discussion on the
ooo-dev or ooo-private about the content removal. Nor was there any
discussion of the account ban. It was just done.
i can't figure out how to look at what exactly you added to the wiki,
but if you really added a demand of payment in livestock to the page
then i consider such handling of obvious attempts at vandalism entirely
appropriate, and i am happy that we have somebody who looks after these
things.
This is not how Commit Then Review works at Apache. This proves my
point that we need to have all wiki users with permissions over other
users to be Committers. Only committers should have the ability to
revert content made by other committers. And this should only be done
with discussion.
in general i'd agree that being a Committer is an advantage for
administrative duties, but of course it depends on finding enough
Committers with sufficient time available to react to Wiki vandalism and
spam in a timely manner; in the current situation i'm happy that Clayton
is still watching it a bit, and he certainly has the experience to do a
good job.
oh, and consider that currently the Wiki is still on Oracle/OOo
infrastructure, not on Apache, so i guess if there really is a Committer
requirement it does not currently apply.
-Rob
regards,
michael
