[dsdl-discuss] Re: Opening our resources

At 2002-12-18 08:54 +0100, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>Before I proceed on opening our resources, I'd like to do a last sanity
>check to make sure we are all in line with needs to be done.

Sounds good!

>1) Read access to our web site
>
>Right now, the following resources are password protected:
>
>http://dsdl.org/private/
>http://lists.dsdl.org/dsdl-discuss/
>http://wiki.dsdl.org/
>
>And per what has been decided, we would give read access to anyone to
>these resources.

Yes ... though I wonder if the dsdl.org/private directory might still be
useful as private ... I guess not if we make public postings about what
goes in there. Does anyone else feel it might be important to still have a
private area that we would only refer to in email and not in the mail list?

>2) Discussion lists
>
>No modification would be done to our discussion lists: dsdl-comment is
>for public comments and dsdl-discuss for the use of our working group
>and invited experts. The modification is through the web site: the
>archives of dsdl-discuss being now open.

Yes.

>3) Write access
>
>Write access to the wiki is reserved for the members of our working
>group. I'd like to take this opportunity to upgrade the wiki to a more
>recent version (with more features and without loss of what we've
>entered up to now) and to propose to add individual logins for write
>access to the wiki: this would help tracking the history of the wiki.

I think that would be a big plus ... I found it awkward (but necessary!) to
timestamp each of the contributions.

>Also, up to now, we've used a cvs server to update the content of our
>main web site. While this is great to track changes on documents, this
>is not very user friendly and not very wall adapted to facilitate
>posting documents on the site.
>
>As we move forward, we have several possibilities:
>
>1) Continue with the CVS server and give write access to all the members
>of the working group.
>2) Leave the CVS server alone and use a web based software to let the
>members of the working group upload their documents.
>3) Do both.
>
>What do you think?

Perhaps both? I like the automation of uploading an XML file and it
automatically transforming it to HTML.

I would weigh Martin's comments (should he have any on these topics)
heavier than my opinions above since he will be working with it more than me.

Thanks as always for your efforts on the web site, Eric! I really think it
is important that we try to find a smooth collaboration environment.

................... Ken

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