[Pdweb] Re: Proposal wrt. guide new users with silk gloves

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Steffen wrote:

> First of all, thanks for the response! It really is much appreciated.
>
> On 30/01/2007, at 9.14, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>> Georg Holzmann wrote:
>>> Hallo Steffen!
>>>
>>> @IOhannes:
>>> Is it possible to set the rights in these sections, so that we can
>>> modify puredata.org like this ?
>>>
>>> Or maybe as a general question, is it good to let all registered  
>>> people
>>> edit these pages ?
>>
>> right, we should find a consensus about this before i open the page.
>>
>> ideas:
>> 1) totally open page: everybody registered can write (add/modify/ 
>> delete)
>> everything everywhere, including the private section of the members
>> 2) open page: everybody registered can write (a/m/d) in all  
>> sections BUT
>> the members folders.
>> 3) closed page: only "certain" members can edit the non-members areas
>
> I also prefer 3), but with a few trivial extensions. As i see it,  
> the site is now divided into tree parts: a) the members pages, b)  
> the wiki pages and c) the non-wiki pages, where b) and c) are non- 
> members pages. Hence the wee extension would be:
>
> 4) semi closed page: only "certain" members can edit the non- 
> members non-wiki areas (that is c)). Any member can edit the wiki  
> pages (that is b)). Only the member can edit there own member area,  
> except a super user incase of for example child porn.
>
> To make it consistent with how the CVS repo works, people would  
> then have to apply to be one of those "certain" members, that can  
> edit the non-wiki pages.
>
> And there need to be decided what should be wiki and what should be  
> non-wiki. For example could the community section be a wiki, while  
> anything else could be non-wiki?
>
>
>> anyhow, whichever security model is chosen, it should be discussed  
>> here.
>
> Agreed indeed. For example i'd like to know what Hans thinks about  
> this, as he mentioned earlier that he had some strong opinions on  
> what should happen to dev/ and docs/.

I think these should be wikis basically, we should lay out the  
structure, but let anyone edit.  Then we just need to agree on the  
structure and have a few wikipedians to keep it organized that way.   
I am willing to be one of those wikipedians.

.hc

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