On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, José Matos wrote:
Just a matter of convention I call developers those people that have
with write access to the lyx repository.
Ok, I'll go along with that for this thread (it's good to have a term for
that category, but 'developer' is to restritive, so later we could try
with 'comitters' or something, or be verbose about the write access?)
I was thinking about another category like what we have now for
translators. They don't have writing access to the repository (unless
they are developers) but they have a very important contribution to lyx
(translations).
If we find people that regularly add useful content to the lyx wiki we
can invite them to have write access to the official lyx pages hence
keeping the pages updated.
If this scenario does not reflect the reality then I apologize. :-)
Thanks for the clarification, I think it's a very valid point. So to be
clear. When the web site is implemented as a wiki, it will no longer be
necessary with write access to the repository in order to modify the
content of www.lyx.org. In other words, with regard to www.lyx.org, we
will at the very least have these categories of people:
Roles with respect to www.lyx.org:
* readers - normal users, can only view pages (perhaps a subset?)
* authors - they know the password for modifying pages
* administrators - they can make changes to the wiki engine's config,
i.e. the can login to aussie and are members of the group 'wiki'.
There doesn't have to be any correlation between the above and write
permission to the repository.
I was trying to emphasize your distinction between the official pages
and the comunity wiki.
Again, thanks, it helped me draft the above. At least it's a start on
clarifying roles. It should now be clear that we can certainly let
'translators' be 'authors', and perhaps some developers with a very bad
writing style should not become 'authors' :-D :-P
/Christian
PS. For quality control of www.lyx.org, it might be good to also introduce
'editors', which must approve modifications to a page before it goes live.
In other words, 'authors' would make changes and ask someone else to proof
read it and then publish that page. I don't know if this is overkill or
not... But as we no longer have a real VCS for the web pages, we might
need something like this. The version stuff in the wiki engine is quite
primitive.
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
