On 5/23/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We have a serious issue to determine, and I've asked for a 48 hour cooldown
of wiki.apache.org/httpd/ to make a decision, and in the meantime asked that
the wiki become read-only for the conclusion of this decision.
[ ] Our httpd wiki is open to external resources for httpd.
[ ] External httpd resources are prohibited.
I mean this explicitly, obviously a link to MS/Sun/RedHat about their
specific platform would be genuinely useful and relevant.
I'm asking about askapache's external links, which have not been actually
contributed to the foundation. And we've never presumed that pointers to
external links are resources under the AL.
AskApache and megaspaz decided to start a pagechange war tonight, but the
first point is to decide if such external 'helpful pages' are welcome.
If so, AskApache was in the right, if not, megaspaz is right. Either way,
I immediately asked for infra to shutter the wiki to write access until this
was resolved as a matter of POLICY.
Once we determine a policy, I belive we owe megaspaz and AskApache a second
chance once they are informed of the definative policy.
Future wiki abuse would, of course, lead to account and IP blockage. But
I believe at this moment both acted in best-faith without any guidance from
our project, and we need to have policies so folks can be responsible wiki
users.
This isn't the end-all of all possibilities, but let's discuss for 2 days
and reopen the wiki with a concrete policy?
On 5/23/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We have a serious issue to determine, and I've asked for a 48 hour cooldown
of wiki.apache.org/httpd/ to make a decision, and in the meantime asked that
the wiki become read-only for the conclusion of this decision.
[ ] Our httpd wiki is open to external resources for httpd.
[ ] External httpd resources are prohibited.
I mean this explicitly, obviously a link to MS/Sun/RedHat about their
specific platform would be genuinely useful and relevant.
I'm asking about askapache's external links, which have not been actually
contributed to the foundation. And we've never presumed that pointers to
external links are resources under the AL.
AskApache and megaspaz decided to start a pagechange war tonight, but the
first point is to decide if such external 'helpful pages' are welcome.
If so, AskApache was in the right, if not, megaspaz is right. Either way,
I immediately asked for infra to shutter the wiki to write access until this
was resolved as a matter of POLICY.
Once we determine a policy, I belive we owe megaspaz and AskApache a second
chance once they are informed of the definative policy.
Future wiki abuse would, of course, lead to account and IP blockage. But
I believe at this moment both acted in best-faith without any guidance from
our project, and we need to have policies so folks can be responsible wiki
users.
This isn't the end-all of all possibilities, but let's discuss for 2 days
and reopen the wiki with a concrete policy?
If a Wiki isn't open to community input ( where "community" here means
*users*, not the typical Apache definition of "community" meaning the
*committers*), then what is it for? Committers can already post to
the project website itself, so they do not need any extra mechanism to
describe things that might be interesting. Content from users, on the
other hand, can be either solicited (in which case external links are
perfectly ok) or censored (in which case nobody need bother ... they
can publish their own links on their own blogs, and let Google help
information seekers instead of the ASF helping them).
In the Apache projects I'm involved with, the only thing we kick off
of the wiki pages is spam. It's a wiki ... it's user contributed
content, and not necessarily reflective of the opinions of the
project's developers. But it is *incredibly* useful to the users of
the software we build. Deal with that reality ... or close it down
... your choice.
Bill
