[geomoose-psc] Publishing the Ledger

[Eli Adam]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Dan Little <theduckylittle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've created a Git repository on www.
>
> 1. I created a new 'ledger' account on www.
> 2. I initialized a bare git repo.
> 3. I put a new public key of mine into authorized_keys.
> 4. I added www as origin, and set it to master's upstream on my local clone.
> 5. There is a summary.py file that will summarize the CSV file.
>
> If there's anyone (other than Jim) who would like me to add their public key
> to the repo, please let me know.  I will do so and send you the appropriate
> git-clone command.

I'll give this a go as well.  You should be able to find my public key
already on www.

Thanks, Eli

>
> Cheers!
>
> On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Jim Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ok.  CSV or maybe even just markdown.  Whatever keeps it simple.
>>
>>
>> On 12/08/2017 01:47 PM, Dan Little wrote:
>>
>> CSV is fine with me as well. That does allow for easy diffing and use of
>> spreadsheet programs as desired.  I will probably also include a "check
>> balance" Python script for doing some basic reporting.  There are CLI and
>> text based ledger programs.  I really don't want to go deep into a format
>> debate or over-do the accounting for what really is a simple
>> money-in-money-out + voting record.
>>
>> In terms of backup and redundancy, I will have the repo cloned locally,
>> which gets backed up regularly, and those who have interest will also be
>> able to do pulls.  The bank account should also have some information and
>> I'll put Nancy and Steve's contact information in the repository so that if
>> something unfortunate were to happen, someone will be able to pick up the
>> torch and continue on.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for starting this Dan.  Github doesn't seem quite right (unless
>>> open source projects also got one private repo for security, finances,
>>> and other non-public issues)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:25 AM, James Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Thoughts:
>>> >
>>> > A plain text format might be better suited with git.  Org would be
>>> > ideal (it
>>>
>>> I was also thinking of some form of text format.
>>>
>>> > can save formulas and recalculate like spreadsheets) except for most of
>>> > the
>>> > magic only works in emacs, and despite emacs clearly being the one true
>>> > editor, I realize not everyone is ready to accept that yet.  But, some
>>> > other
>>> > format like CSV or markdown table could work too.  Mostly, I'd like to
>>> > be
>>>
>>> CSV is simple text and can still be used by spreadsheet programs.
>>>
>>> > able to use diff/blame to make it easy to audit who changed what when.
>>>
>>> Yes, changesets was the point.  I suppose that there is not going to
>>> be a lot of churn on this file so I could download 10 copies of binary
>>> files and open and look at them.  But that is using me (a human) to do
>>> diffs.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > The geomoose.org server is only sporatically backed up right now
>>> > (mostly
>>> > before and after larger system config changes and GeoMoose releases).
>>> > I
>>> > have been assuming the day to day changes are covered by what is on
>>> > github
>>> > and people's local clones.  Thus is this isn't living on github, we
>>> > should
>>> > be extra sure we are maintaining a separate  copies (that are kept up
>>> > to
>>> > date) off server.
>>> >
>>> > I have no problem with git over ssh (or git over email).  That is how
>>> > it was
>>> > designed to work in the first place.  We could go as simple as using
>>> > the
>>> > geomoose account or even easily setup gitolite.
>>>
>>>
>>> Every PSC meeting that has a report about finances could be a prompt
>>> for PSC members to copy the repo somewhere.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > We should maybe look at using GPG signed commits (git commit -S) for
>>> > this
>>> > repo.
>>>
>>> Maybe.  I don't expect that we'll have confusion over who is making
>>> the commits.
>>>
>>> Best regards, Eli
>>>
>>> >
>>> > On Dec 8, 2017 8:44 AM, "Dan Little" <theduckylittle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hey Folks,
>>> >>
>>> >> I have put together the start of a 'ledger'. Right now it's a
>>> >> spreadsheet
>>> >> in .ODS format. Barring objections, I'd like to create a repository on
>>> >> the
>>> >> web-server which can be accessed over SSH to store the ledger.  This
>>> >> can
>>> >> give folks who are interested access without putting _everything_ up
>>> >> on
>>> >> GitHub.
>>> >>
>>> >> For those interested, we have $1,126 available at present.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks again!
>>> >>
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