[mapserver-dev] Motion: Documentation commit access grants

[Devin Blakley]

+1

I agree, the easier you make the documentation process, the more likely documentation will get done properly.



Sincerely,
Devin

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From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of thomas bonfort
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:56 AM
To: Yewondwossen Assefa; MapServer Dev Mailing List
Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Motion: Documentation commit access grants

+1

On 12/02/2010, Yewondwossen Assefa <yassefa at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> +1
> Howard Butler wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> With the multilingual documentation starting to pick up steam and our
>> fancy new styling enticing more people to contribute ;), I'd like to
>> change to a forgiveness model instead of a permission one for
>> documentation commit access.  I would propose that any PSC member can give
>> commit access to the docs section of the website and notify mapserver-dev
>> of that fact.  The contributor would then reply to that email on
>> mapserver-dev announcing their agreement to abide by RFC 7.  The PSC can
>> later motion to revoke this access if it is a problem for any reason.
>>
>> I want the documentation contribution to be lower friction than the source
>> code contribution.  The ticket/patch/commit model works well for code
>> contribution, but I think it flounders for documentation because of the
>> now increasing language variability and the contribution volume (many
>> pages, lots of small edits, so on).  We don't use a wiki (or Plone!) for
>> primary documentation contribution, and we should do our best to allow
>> people to easily contribute to the documentation.  I want to enable people
>> like Eduin to hit the ground running quickly without too much of our
>> bureaucracy getting in the way.
>>
>> /me starts with a +1
>>
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