From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13685 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2014 07:12:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 13671 invoked by uid 89); 14 Feb 2014 07:12:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mtaout24.012.net.il Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il (HELO mtaout24.012.net.il) (80.179.55.180) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:12:13 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N0Z0040058DBD00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:11:08 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N0Z003EB5AK5E10@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:11:08 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:12:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [GDB Wiki] Add editor privilege control In-reply-to: <20140214030759.GC5485@adacore.com> To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83ppmqcgmx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140214030759.GC5485@adacore.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:07:59 +0400 > From: Joel Brobecker > > 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?