Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread Majken Connor
I have been working with Tom Farrow (tad) and some other community members to put together a proposal for better delivering Web Services to Communities.This would restructure the delivery of services like hosting, domains and emails which are currently provided to communities. Creating a module wou

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
I'd encourage that a peer be from the Mozilla InfoSec Team to audit and vet the accesses to user data that volunteers are being given access too. If a security issue arose on any of these community hosted platforms Mozilla would take a PR hit for not having vetted the processes and access to user

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread David Ascher
Good to see a proposal. I think it'd be good to articulate a bit more of the plan and its purpose, before diving into the details of module structure, which feel a bit premature to me. In particular, I'd like to understand: - what kinds of websites does Mozilla offer / underwrite, and for what p

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread Majken Connor
I'll take a first go at answering these questions, but Pierros or Tom might have important info to add: On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, David Ascher wrote: > Good to see a proposal. > > I think it'd be good to articulate a bit more of the plan and its purpose, > before diving into the details

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread David Ascher
Thanks Kensie -- I wholeheartedly support the general idea of trying to bring some cohesion to the systems that still allow decentralized expression by volunteers of Mozilla in their local context. We can and should make it easier for people to create web presences and collaborative spaces where

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread Majken Connor
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:04 PM, David Ascher wrote: > Thanks Kensie -- > > I wholeheartedly support the general idea of trying to bring some cohesion > to the systems that still allow decentralized expression by volunteers of > Mozilla in their local context. We can and should make it easier fo

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread David Ascher
I may be missing some background. Can you explain what you would do as module owners that you can't do today, and/or whose code or actions you seek to influence as module owner? On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, 7:44 PM Majken Connor wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:04 PM, David Ascher > wrote: > >>

Re: Module Proposal: Mozilla Communities Web Services

2016-02-16 Thread Michael Kelly
I think approving a module for Mozilla Communities Web Services would be a great low-cost way to support the community sites that we're already providing resources for. That this is just writing down a process that's already happening is a good sign for it's viability, I think. I also really l