Re: contributors.debian.org (aka a home for contributors)?
Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Currently, the wiki has a lot of wiki-user homepages. There are two
> issues related to those wiki pages:
>
> 1. Wiki pages and homepages share the main namespace which cause false
> positive in search results... (yes some user choose some ambiguous
> names like root, Aim, DebianLiveUser, Mac, netbug)
Could be solved by communicating a clear namespace policy IMHO.
> 2. Putting personal data under an open source license sounds weird.
> Allowing to modify and redistribute those data is... not something
> we want. (We discovered this issue as we were preparing the
> re-licensing of the wiki).
The license is one thing, there is still copyright: mention origin, no
misrepresentation, etc. So having an open source license for personal
data might not be a good idea, though it's not a call for abuse of the data.
> The initial plan was to simply move those pages to wiki.d.org/User/ and
> leave those pages copyrighted to their owners. However there is an
> alternative:
>
> What about moving those homepages to something like:
> http://contibutors.debian.org ??
Any reason why it could not go to debian-community.org if it's not
welcome on wiki.debian.org?
> Pros:
> * Every Debian contributor would have an (easy) to edit a homepage.
> (Raphael Hertzog mentioned that DM/NM might experiment using wiki
> homepage so applicant list their contributions)
This would certainly be ok on debian-community.org IMHO
> * It is possible to write a macro to generate a Portfolio[1]
Only needs someone to do it :-)
> * The wiki could be used as a "weak" openid provider for other services.
> (esp. for users that don't have alioth account yet).
Could be considered.
> Cons:
> * What about debian-community.org? Do we integrate some of the services
> together, etc..
I think it should be merged together.
Personally I don't mind if that would mean renaming debian-community.org
or just integrating these ideas over there.
Cheers
Luk
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