I like this. It's a way to suck in people with useful information to contribute. Later, as you say, some trimming will reduce the number of wandering fragmentary contributions.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org> wrote: > We've not really discussed who should have access to the comdev > resources. I'd like to propose that, in the short term, we grant write > access to anyone who has earned committership on any project in the > ASF (including incubating projects). > > My reasoning is that we need to generate (and collate) clear > documentation about the ASF way of doing things. The best way to do > this is probably to let anyone who knows the ASF to contribute. > > I don't believe this is a good idea in the long term, or even medium > term, as freely edited wikis usually result in chaos and incomplete > articles. These means we will need a fair bit of gardening. For pure > wikis this is not a problem, but for us this becomes our website with > no intermediate staging. Once we feel that we are in danger of losing > control we can think about creating a separate wiki space for free > access. > > Thoughts? Does madness lie in that direction? If so what would be a > better approach? > > -- > Ross Gardler > > OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research > http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk >
