[Gimp-web] registry prototyping / design

[Raphaël Quinet]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:04:13 +0200, "Ingo Lütkebohle" <iluetkeb at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]  A different possibility would
> be to let confirmed authors edit anything they like.  There is a
> revision keeping feature that would make that safe to do -- sort of
> like in a Wiki -- and it would easily allow groups of authors (of
> which there are a few) to share maintenance.

If the revision history is reliable, then it would be great to let
confirmed authors edit anything they like.  Wikis tend to work quite
well as long as there is a minimum level of mutual trust and I think
that it would work well with plug-in authors.

> > [...] I just hope that you (or the other
> > administrators) will not have to deal with comment spam...
> 
> Commenting is currently restricted to users with accounts and thats
> how I'd like to keep it.

There is the risk that someone writes a bot that creates new accounts
automatically and starts posting spam in comments.  We had this
problem more than once in the GIMP wiki.  I just hope that it will
not happen in the registry, or that we will be able to counter these
attacks quickly.

Anyway, great work so far!  It is nice to see that you are back in
business with nice ideas...  :-)

-Raphaël