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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [GDB Wiki] Add editor privilege control
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ppmqcgmx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140214030759.GC5485@adacore.com>

> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:07:59 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> I'd like to protect our wiki from spammers who regularly use it
> for their own purposes by adding read,write,delete,revert privileges
> to only known members of the GDB community. The model I'd like
> to follow is the model used in the GDB Wiki. See:
> 
>     http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EditorGroup
> 
> The idea is that we start with a list of people who are allowed
> to edit. If anyone who's a legitimate contributor wants to edit
> the wiki as well, one of the users already in the group simply adds
> their name to the list.

Why does it make sense to have a wiki that doesn't behave like a wiki,
i.e. is not a community-provided content?  IOW, how is what you
propose different from having this stuff on the GDB project web pages,
which are editable by only a few select people?


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-14  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-14  3:08 Joel Brobecker
2014-02-14  7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-02-14  7:26   ` Joel Brobecker
2014-02-14 18:35 ` Stan Shebs
2014-02-14 20:58   ` Doug Evans
2014-02-15  2:52     ` Joel Brobecker
2014-03-02 15:35   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2014-03-03 16:12     ` Joel Brobecker
2014-04-09 12:53       ` Joel Brobecker
2014-04-09 13:12         ` Jonas Maebe
2014-04-09 13:34         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2014-04-09 18:24           ` Joel Brobecker
2014-04-09 17:44         ` Stan Shebs

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