[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Java becomes Open Source, what next?

[James Hare]

Alternatively, we can make the process much more bureaucratic. It'll suck,
but Java is a harsh mistress. What I was thinking was that code could be
submitted, then it'd have to be audited by a developer (or anyone approved
by the Foundation to evaluate Java), make sure it's appropriate, then add to
the site thusly.

Yes, I know, bureaucratic, but we can't afford to have our sites screwed up
because of a single vandal. (At least text vandalism is revertable.)

On 11/14/06, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/14/06, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Sun Microsystems will make all the Java code they own available under
> the GPL:
>
> and on wikitech-l Erik wrote:
>
> > A community review process, where open source applets can be nominated
> > for inclusion in Wikimedia, or particular resources / applet authors
> > can be community-certified as trustworthy, with the final step being
> > implemented by a sysop or bureaucrat, strikes me as a reasonable
> > compromise between security and ease of inclusion.
>
>
> Check this out - I'm an English Wikiversity bureaucrat, and I haven't
> a clue about how any of this works or could/should be managed! In my
> opinion, in order to most productively conduct this conversation, we
> need to think of the people on the projects this will impact - by
> asking things like the following:
>
> *Is an "evil" java resource going to be easily spotted by a project
> sysop/bureaucrat? (How do you spot an "evil" or potentially evil
> resource?)
> *How would java resources be added to a project? The same as - or
> similar to - a file? Or simply through adding code into a page?
> (and consequently)
> *How much patrolling will this require?
>
> I'd of course be incredibly excited to have engaging learning
> materials added to Wikiversity, as well as applications for all our
> projects. I'm just trying here to imagine how we would deal with this
> "in the trenches", so to speak.
>
> Please pardon my war-like language here - must be a hangover from the
> [[w:Armistice]] weekend :-)
>
> Cormac
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