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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

We will have to figure this out as we go.  What ever platform we use, it
will not be the free for all that we currently have.

On 11/29/2019 1:19 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> As far as I know, there is not fine-grained access control on Wiki
> pages.  The only way to do something like this to create a separate
> project just for a public wiki.  Then a limited set of people would have
> permissions to copy things from the public wiki to the main KiCad
> project wiki.
> 
> To be honest, that sounds less useful than the current status quo, which
> is to use Google Docs for pre-implementation design collaboration.
> I know not everyone likes Google or wants to create an account, and I'd
> be happy to try alternatives that have the same functionality.  But, I
> think it's important to have similar functionality: A few people have
> access to edit, and more people (i.e. the public) can only make
> suggestions or comments.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 1:09 PM Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Wayne,
> 
>     On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 12:49:30PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 
>     > I will also be disabling the Launchpad blueprint and answers pages as
>     > well.  We not going to migrate the blueprints to GitLab because the
>     > entire blueprint system is a mess due to the lack of sane permissions.
>     > We may have to manually migrate the useful blueprints to GitLab
>     once we
>     > have a reasonable process for doing so.
> 
>     One of my main hopes for the migration is to get a workflow for
>     collaborative pre-implementation design. Blueprints were a nice
>     idea, but
>     they were never fully implemented on Launchpad, and it shows.
> 
>     It'd probably make sense to use the Wiki for that, do you know if it is
>     possible for non-committers to have limited Wiki editing rights (e.g. an
>     "ideas" namespace with looser permissions, and moving the page to the
>     "roadmap" namespace later)?
> 
>        Simon
> 
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