[WebCom] Web Site Translations

[Tyler Mitchell]

What are asking for, aside from more updates?  Should we start creating accounts  and who for - all webcom and SAC?  Or should all project/committee leads or members also have accounts?  This is all I'm asking for re: having some policies in place.  I just thought WebCom/SAC might want to give it some thought so we create accounts once and be done with it.
I'm just going down our list and see that LDAP and Trac are yet to be done and that the plan was to use LDAP for auth. - I hope my outlook hasn't looked like I'm trying to ignore people or make something else higher priority.
You've got my attention - what should be done? 

-----Original Message-----

From: Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org>
Sent: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:53:19 -0800
To: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
CC: Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at shaw.ca>, webcommittee_dev at lists.osgeo.org, sbarnes at dmsolutions.ca
Received:  Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:53:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [WebCom] Web Site Translations

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:17:55PM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> My understanding was that a major impetus for the move to a CMS like Drupal
> was to get more people involved in content work for the web site.  While
> I do think we need some guidelines and some review to ensure things aren't
> going off the rails I also think we need to keep this reasonably open
> to encourage contributions.

+1 on all this, FrankW.

I have been really looking forward to getting a login on the new
site, and know i'm not alone in this. This isn't even at the level of
wanting to install basic modules like calendaring, or replace the lame
compromise of the news page with a proper backend - this is just about
wanting to make corrections and remove old links, etc on individual
pages which, as a committee chair i feel responsible for.

As i understand it, you're waiting for LDAP authentication to be
working against Drupal in some way, (read-only? read-write?) before
you give out accounts to any of the people who are asking. 
(Apart from FrankW to whom absolutely nothing can be denied and rightly so!)

Is there a reason for the ongoing holdup, how is shawn's time
optimised against this (e.g. You are assessing trac as a higher
priority? and that has to be done in a sane, global-for-projects
manner rather than being thrown up so that people who are curious or
concerned have a way of being able to get an overview of progress
without having to generate noise asking you on a list or privately?

thanks, 


jo