Ingo Karkat wrote: > On 09-Feb-2010 21:20, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > I'm careful about giving more people access to the site directly. If > > you say what page you would want to change I can send you the php code > > and you can send me a diff. > > I agree that there should be very few committers to the site; however, > in my opinion, freely sharing the (PHP) source code of the site might > have encouraged more people to send you a patch in order to improve > the site's functionality. As it is, there are these occasional > discussions about the site's deficiencies, but nobody is able to step > up and implement an alternative, because the source > code is relatively closed. > > So, I would propose putting the vim.org's source code (not the actual > user database and scripts!) into a (Mercurial?) repository (separate > from Vim's source code).
This would also make the site vunerable for hackers. I don't know enough PHP to locate possible holes and opening it up won't fix that. I rather not do this. Having only a few maintainers looking at the code is better. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 212. Your Internet group window has more icons than your Accessories window. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
