[Gdal-dev] Motion: Adopt OSGeo Project Sponsorship Program

[Frank Warmerdam]

Matt Wilkie wrote:
>> I hereby move that all motions to the PSC be documented on a page on 
>> the website for historical and accounting reasons and to pluck them 
>> out of the rigamarole of day-to-day list traffic.
> 
> So long as a web page is not the -sole- posting. Websites can vanish, be 
> re-organised and silently updated for a variety of reasons (not 
> necessarily maliciously, mistakes happen too). This is precisely why 
> some of the security mailing lists require there be no web-only records 
> of exploits, fixes etc.

Matt,

The website is generated from the GDAL CVS tree (eg gdal/doc, gdal/rfc).  So
as long as the GDAL source tree exists then the records will exist.

I agree that web-only records (for instance in a CMS) make me nervous.

Best regards,
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