On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 08:17:32PM +0000, Federico Masias wrote:
> The github solution works fairly well, I think. The biggest issue is
> guessing at how it will appear on the website. for example, I'd love to
> re-organize the FAQs... maybe by OS, maybe by something else, but I'm not
> sure how/if nested collapsing menus would work for this, or they'd have to
> be set up under different headers. There's no real way for me to test this.

I can give you access to the WordPress site - the problem is that I have
never bothered to do a test site (actually, I did have one and that fell
apart). Maybe I need to go back and do that so I can give you something to
play with without destroying the production site by mistake... :-)

> However, I know firsthand that adding multiple people to WordPress is a
> pain in the ass to manage. Plus, how do you vet a new contributor for the
> first few times, and at what point are they given edit access?

I have been very very trusting. All but two people had used that trust
well. One person came in with intent to install malware, but I was
tracing his work (I can't even remember why I was suspicious... I think it
was because he had never really done anything on the mailing list and then
out of the blue volunteered to help) and kicked him off the site within a
couple of minutes.

The other person deleted things by mistake which I was able to restore
from backups. But at this point about a dozen people have access - some
use it, some don't.

The goal with the github repo was to make it less necessary for people to
access WordPress directly...

> I wonder if its possible to have a sandbox installation somewhere with the
> current theme to play with, and a public (to contributors, anyways)
> author/editor account? I might even have space to host it if need be.

This is all hosted on my server, so space isn't the issue. It's the time
it takes to manage such a sandbox. See above.

> On the translation side, I'm only proficient enough to do Spanish, and
> Salva has that covered very well, so I don't really have anything to add
> for that.
> 
> Oh, also, I'm fezzington.

Ha! Thanks for the work on the website that you've done already!!!

/D
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