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Re: Website maintenance?
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:22:45 -0400
- Subject: Re: Website maintenance?
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On 09/08/2014 02:14 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 09:28:48PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> Does anyone want to maintain the website?
>>
>> I've just automated the last of the ugly bits to upload
>> the newly built manual for each release:
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Website%20Maintenance
>>
>> If you're interested you would effectively become the person
>> responsible for website updates, website bugs, and reorganizing
>> the website.
>
> Where's the git/cvs/svn repo? I couldn't find it on the website;
> maybe the Development section should have information about it. If
> everyone in MAINTAINERS has commit access then it may be easier to
> just take up collective responsibility instead of having one person in
> charge of it.
You need Savannah access to edit the website, see:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Website%20Maintenance
>> I don't mind to keep having this responsibility, but it's one of
>> those things that maybe someone else loves more than me and that
>> someone wants to get involved in Free Software development in
>> some way.
>
> Do contributors need to assign copyright for contributions to the
> website?
The web pages are minor works that IMO do not require a copyleft
license, nor copyright assignment. Maybe if we someday get lots of
javascript, user data, and other things, we may wish to attach
a license and require copyright assignment. Until then we don't.
Cheers,
Carlos.