>>>>> "Laurent" == Laurent Blume <[email protected]> writes:
Mike> AFAICS, the Constitution doesn't define what it means to be a project Mike> Contributor. That leaves it up to the project leaders to decide Mike> who's a (project) Contributor, doesn't it? Laurent> Yes, so we would need to establish a way for Project leaders to Laurent> define those. Practically, this amount to a per-user Laurent> definition, right? Well, yes and no. Yes, in that a per-user decision is made whether to grant the user a particular role. But no, in that the permissions would be based on the role definition, not on an ad hoc per-user set of permissions. Laurent> Can I still point out that some well known wikis around are Laurent> full of spam, and that reporting it seems to go in a Laurent> black-hole, so all is not well in wikiland, I agree that some vigilance is required on the part of the community. But even on a publicly accessible wiki like genunix, I haven't found it onerous to clean up after spammers. Laurent> I'm also wary in general of growing list of people with all the Laurent> same theorical level of responsibilities, In my experience, it Laurent> often dilutes individual responsibility so much that in the Laurent> end, nobody assumes it. I agree that if everybody is responsible, then nobody is responsible, and that can lead to nobody taking action. But I don't think granting permission is the same as assigning responsibility. I view this more as empowering people to help. Mike> Are you saying that someone could get Contributor status without Mike> having signed an SCA, but that Sun would want an SCA on file Mike> before the person is allowed to edit pages? Laurent> Exactly. That's an interesting point, so I asked about this at a meeting this morning. My understanding is that while an SCA would be preferred, Section 11 of the website Terms Of Use[1] effectively grants Sun a license to whatever content a user might post. Laurent> My vote goes for establishing technical roles totally different Laurent> from the constitutional roles, and please, with different names Laurent> - we've got enough naming confusion already. Yeah, I'm starting to think that separating them would be a good idea. Though I think I'd like to see this dealt with as post-migration cleanup. There are some significant operational and functional advantages to getting off the current portal software. mike Footnotes: [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/tou/ _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
