On 04/09/2019 17:12, John Andrunas wrote: > * Does the committers group really just contain all committers? > the committers group in confluence is from LDAP so it should only > contain ASF members
No. It contains all committers which is a larger set than all members. > * Do we have enough experience to be able to say we can trust all of > the people in this group to not spam confluence? Yes. > * Are there any potential side effects of allowing all committers to > add and edit comdev pages that I haven't thought of and that we should > be aware of? > Confluence keeps versions of all edits, and deleted pages can be > recovered (though you didn't mention delete permissions), so if > someone vandalized a page an earlier version could be recovered. A committer isn;t going to do that. > Other than someone causing additional work to recover/remove spam I > wouldn't expect anything unexpected (except maybe the Spanish > Inquisition, no one ever expects that). There may be specific pages > you want to add additional restrictions on though. I doubt it. Unless it is something that needs to be PMC private which is unlikely. Mark > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 8:22 AM Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I'd like us to use the comdev confluence in order to help organize the >> hackathon for ApacheCon Europe 2019. I'd like people participating in the >> hackathon to be able to enter their own projects. >> >> However a problem with this approach occurred to me: if I have to enter each >> interested user in the permissions table in confluence, it's not really >> self-organizing any more. >> >> I had a look at the confluence permissions table though, and one potential >> solution occurred to me: Perhaps I can enter the committers group and give >> them permissions to add pages and comments. I already experimentally added >> the committers group to the permissions table (and discovered I couldn't >> figure out how to delete them again). >> >> So here come my questions: >> * Does the committers group really just contain all committers? >> * Do we have enough experience to be able to say we can trust all of the >> people in this group to not spam confluence? >> * Are there any potential side effects of allowing all committers to add and >> edit comdev pages that I haven't thought of and that we should be aware of? >> >> If those questions have the answers I hope they have, then I'll come back >> here, and ask the comdev PMC if there are any objections to allowing >> committers edit access to the comdev wiki. Depending on the answers, we may >> also wish to consider giving all committers access to only certain parts of >> the comdev space. Let's see how the discussion goes. >> >> Best Regards, >> Myrle > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
