[WebCom] Web Site Translations

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> This brings up the whole roles/access control issue again.  Until we 
> have a plan for handling users and roles in the drupal site, perhaps we 
> should just have translators provide back some raw html to be added in 
> by WebCom.  I think we need to view our osgeo.org site content 
> management just as strictly (more or less) as we did in the past through 
> WebCom, though I think we should still have a community section that is 
> more for community interaction, blogs, tools, etc. as tested on 
> community.osgeo.org.

Tyler,

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.

I'm not adverse to putting things off a bit to get an approach in place,
but if we get too focused on security and very limited roles we are going
to have a hard time getting more people involved.

Personally I found the launch of the mapserver Plone site very frustrating
because it seemed like every time I wanted to do something I had to beg
Howard for some sort of additional permissions.  Now I seem to have broad
powers, and feel free to contribute.  But if I hadn't initially been fairly
motivated I would just have given up.  I don't want the same problem on the
OSGeo site.

BTW, I really miss the ability to see what changes have been made in Drupal
(as compared to the wiki).  I review the "recent changes" list but it doesn't
tell me what actually changed on a page.

> I will put my thoughts on access control into an RFC for the committee 
> to debate.

OK, sounds good.

Best regards,
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