On 09/17/2011 03:44 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 03:32 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > >> As I said above, this isn't something people can volunteer for - only >> a very select few have the appropriate privileges to perform the task. >> There are trust issues. >> >> However, you can file a bug report against the website. > > What is the point in 'complaining' by filing a BUG report when it is > conspicuously evident the existing web person(s) can not cope because > they have insufficient time or have died or have withdrawn from an > active Centos involvement. > Because as far as the CentOS Project is concerned, if there isn't a bug report the issue doesn't exist. Those that can fix the issue don't necessarily read the users mailing list so the correct thing to do is file a bug report. > Ideally the Centos Management Board could use this list and other lists > to ask for web help. > > You wrote about 'trust issues'. Surely it just a web site which can have > access restricted to all the web pages or some of them and that access > be withdrawn for 'trust issues' after the volunteers have finished > updating it ? That is very easy to do on Centos / Apache. > > Another method is to give the volunteers a demo sub-domain, for example: > new.centos.org, and let the volunteers construct an updated version > there. When it is approved by the Centos Management Board, those > refreshed web pages can be moved to www.centos.org. Simple, eh (and not > a trace of SQL joins or views anywhere) :-) > There is an ongoing Website V2 sub-project that has been running for some time: http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2 http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/websitever2/ Feel free to get involved.