David Kastrup wrote Saturday, May 16, 2015 11:11 AM >> Trevor Daniels wrote Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:15 PM >> >>> I'm sure we'll find some undesirable features of Allura when we get >> down to the details, but that's what the next few weeks will tell us. >> >> I've pretty well completed my assessment of Allura at SourceForge, and >> find the facilities available pretty well match our needs, in fact >> they are surprisingly similar to those at GoogleCode. There are some >> differences but none which we can't live with. So far so good. >> >> However, there is a show-stopper concerning the integrity of the >> Issues discussions recorded in the tracker. Each item in the >> discussion has an owner, and this is set to Anonymous during the >> import, since the original owner is not recognised as a SourceForge >> account-holder. This in itself is not a serious problem, as the >> correct owner is recorded in the text of the message. However, owners >> of discussion messages are always permitted to edit them, irrespective >> of the permission settings, and I can find no way of preventing this. >> That means Anonymous, which is any not-logged-in user, i.e. anyone, >> will be able to edit, accidently or maliciously, any and all >> discussion entries in our Issues DB. >> >> I've reported this to the SourceForge maintainers: >> https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/10317/ > > So one probably will want to have some fallback owner here.
Yes, I've suggested using a dummy user, like Importer, in the report I submitted. Or even the project owner. > The issue > would be somewhat softened if we can convince Savannah to offer Allura, > but not all current issue owners are in the LilyPond project member set > on Savannah either. I don't think the importer is part of Allura. I suspect it is an add-on developed by or for SourceForge, although I have no evidence to back that up, only that the documentation for it is separate from the Allura documentation. I'll dig a bit. Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
