publishing group suggestion

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 02:27:26PM -0400, Eric Sparks Christensen wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 14:17, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > 11:12 < quaid> ok, here's a thought ...
>> > 11:12 < quaid> long tradition is that 'docs' gave full commit access
>> >   to content; I see people still do
>> >               that with f'hosted repos
>> > 11:12 < quaid> (mostly)
>> > 11:13 < quaid> we had publishing separate because it was different,
>> >   separate, required training to not
>> >               break, etc.
>> > 11:13 < quaid> but if we're going to be publishing websites with
>> >   publican as the cms (basically)
>> > 11:13 < quaid> why not just use 'docs' group as who can publish?
>> >
>> > What I was also saying is that we have this:
>> >
>> > CMS for docs.fp.o:
>> > * Publican handles publishing and building of content for the web.
>> > * FAS handles authentication.
>> > * Beacon with DocBook extensions could be the wysiwyg editor.
>> >
>> > 'docs' group membership could be sufficient for publishing.  Why add
>> > another group when we have one well populated with all the people we
>> > want able to publish immediately?
>> >
>> > This lowers the barriers a lot for using Publican, but it doesn't give
>> > us a CMS that invites the 10x participation that we get through the
>> > wiki-like interfaces.  Having an easy web authentication layer with a
>> > nice WYSIWYG editor (and a publish button) is a very important goal.
>>
>> Want to fold in the individual guide repos (fhosted.o) as well?
>
> You could actually do this without just chgrp'ing everything, if
> there's ACL support there.  Just add permissions for the docs group as
> ACLs for all the repos.  That gives extra flexibility for the future
> and accomplishes the goal at the same time.
>
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Per my task from tonights Docs meeting - anyone else have input on
this proposal??
Thoughts?? comments?? flames??