[mapserver-dev] Motion: Documentation commit access grants

[Tamas Szekeres]

+1

Best regards,

Tamas



2010/2/12 Howard Butler <hobu.inc at gmail.com>

> 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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