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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2015-01-13: call for agenda items
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:19:24
Message-Id: 54A2B499.4090007@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2015-01-13: call for agenda items by Alex Legler
1 On 12/29/14 19:18, Alex Legler wrote:
2 > On 12/29/14 at 9:57 PM, Matthew Thode wote:
3 >> On 12/28/2014 10:45 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
4 >>> Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2014, 12:57:16 schrieb Michał Górny:
5 >>>> We should also finally decide on a clear way of knowing who's on
6 >>>> the team. Right now wiki list seems to be the de-facto solution but
7 >>>> many developers simply don't want to get a wiki account...
8 >>> Given that all project pages are supposed to move to the wiki, the wiki *is*
9 >>> the solution...
10 >>>
11 >>> I'm sorry, but I dont really see the point of refusing to create a wiki
12 >>> account. That's a bit like not committing anything because you don't like cvs.
13 >>>
14 >> I'd like to see us use something that can be used in more places.
15 >> having the source of info be in the wiki seems good for end users, but
16 >> bad for using that info programmaticly (if needed). Something like ldap
17 >> groups that feed into the wiki (and anywhere else needed) seems more
18 >> usable to me (but more upfront work).
19 >>
20 > Project membership is stored in a machine-readable way and can already
21 > be extracted from the wiki in (rather specific) RDF/XML. If it should be
22 > actually needed anywhere else, I can easily generate a 'clean' version
23 > and distribute it via api.g.o.
24 >
25
26 I'd like to be able to answer the question "what teams am I on?" and
27 "what teams is so-and-so on?" This is a bit hard to answer from the
28 wiki because it answers the opposite question "who is on team X".
29
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31 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
32 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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