[not sure how this is OGB, but ...] Mark Martin writes: > As near as I can tell, the core contributors, whom are all internal > folks by definition, still have internal mechanisms to get at materials > and conduct business. It's the external folks that have been > _completely_ cut off from effectively contributing[1]. As an external > contributor who has no membership nor voting status in any quorum > community, I can only call upon your good nature to restore as much of > the site as is possible without jeopardizing the rest of the portal. > Please consider my +.1.
I'd give a +1. We have no expectation that the site will have the old caselog on it in the future (and I don't believe that's part of what's planned either in the short or long term), so flushing "caselog/" and providing access to the remaining community pages seems the only available fix at the moment. The mechanism I put up this morning gives us some open access to the 'active' cases (those either scheduled for regular review or waiting fast-tracks). The other cases that were under 'caselog/' are obviously useful for background and reference (and access to at least expurgated versions of those cases has long been a hotly contested issue; enough so that there's been work put into tracking the gradual opening of old cases), but in terms of time-to-fix, I think access to those older ones could safely wait one or a few weeks, where the ones currently in flight just can't wait at all. (As for why it matters: those old cases generally set precedent in a lot of areas, such as the rules against delivering the same thing in multiple places, or delivering "hacked" alternatives, or the rationales for complicated changes such as SMF. Members of the community bump into these things not infrequently, usually when someone tells them they "can't" make some proposed change. Keeping the cases hidden makes it look like the discussions of those precedents are just obstructionism.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[email protected]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
