Re: Minutes being messed with?

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

In 6man, as I suspect in most other w.g.’s, the minute takers use Etherpad to take the raw minutes.   It's a problem, if others can rewrite it during or after the fact.

For the purpose of producing w.g. minutes, it would be nice to be able to lock its write access to the minute takers.   We usually know who they are in advance.

Is this possible in Etherpad?   That is, limit write access while allowing everyone else to have read access.

I note that Etherpad has the ability to show users, this is helpful, but since there is no login, doesn’t solve the problem.

Suggestions?

Bob

p.s. I note the parallels here with the issues we see on the Internet.  A tools that works great for a set of users who are aligned, but then it breaks when you get other users who have other intents.  Sigh...



> On Jul 31, 2019, at 1:45 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I agree with Patrick on this. I'm among those people who are reluctant
> to create accounts on websites, especially if:
> - creating the account is more effort/out-of-context action than the
> info I was about to share/get (our case here),
> - the 1st benefit is mainly to the system and barely to me (our case
> here too).
> If I didn't already have a datatracker account, I wouldn't mind using an
> anonymous "edit" button but I would certainly not create an account just
> to update my speaker name in Etherpad...
> 
> Julien
> 
> 
> On 29/07/2019 17:59, Patrick McManus wrote:
>> please don't add a datatracker login to the etherpad requirements - it
>> is already hard enough to find people to take minutes.
>> 
>> however an anonymous "click to edit" button would do fine and likely
>> prevent this from accidentally happening without breaking the no-doubt
>> useful translation feature being used.
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 11:54 AM Henrik Levkowetz
>> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>    On 2019-07-29 17:30, Jim Fenton wrote:
>>> On 7/29/19 1:06 AM, Van De Velde, Gunter (Nokia - BE/Antwerp) wrote:
>>>> Yep, they were swapped, while I was typing.. it confused the
>>    heck out of me .
>>> 
>>> If this is disrupting things, and it sounds like it is, perhaps
>>    Etherpad
>>> should require a Datatracker login in order to edit. That would
>>    at least
>>> provide some accountability, and we would know who we need to
>>    "coach".
>> 
>>    Yes, this has been my conclusion from the thread so far.
>> 
>>            Henrik
>> 
>>> I missed the ADD BOF, so I tried looked at Etherpad afterwards
>>    and it
>>> was a bunch of Cyrillic text. Glad to know about the history slider!
>>> 
>>> -Jim
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
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