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[Rouben <rouben AT rouben.net>]

Overall, this is a great idea. I was thinking along the same lines, actually, and was going to post a thread to trigger a discussion.

I think it may also be a good idea to create standardized proposal templates (the howto is a starting point, I suppose).

Having things like TLD Charters and all proposals on the wiki will allow:

1. A centralized place of review.

2. A centralized place of submitting edits/changes.

After a review period, we can use the same page(s) to implement a vote.

With regards to implementation, may I make a *controversial* suggestion (please don't kill me)?

How about Atlassian’s suite of products (Confluence, Bitbucket, Jira, etc)? Sure it’s closed source/commercial, but Atlassian’s suite is a mature, fully-featured and they have a non-profit/open source licensing tier for practically their entire suite. Their wiki, in particular, is extremely powerful - more of an intranet than a wiki really. I think we would also be eligible to use the rest of their products, including code hosting (BitBucket), managing changes and projects (Jira), etc. I understand there may be hesitation to use proprietary/commecrial software here, but I'd like to think of it as a way to avoid maintaining things that are not core to OpenNIC, allowing us to focus on what is core to what we do - DNS and the democratic community governing it. After all, we use github.com to host some of the code, and its closed source.

If OpenNIC is a formally registered non-profit anywhere, we can apply for a community license: https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/community-license-request

alternatively, I think we'd also qualify for an open source project license, which has virtually no formal requirements other than being an open source project:

https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request

heck, I think we could qualify just based on the infrastructure management stuff that's on Github under OpenNIC right now:

https://github.com/opennic

worst case scenario, we can just call them up and ask. :) Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd heard of us, after all, OpenNIC has been around for what, 17+ years now?

Thoughts?

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 20:32 Fusl <opennic AT lists.dedilink.eu> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've recently been looking for a good DokuWiki plugin to allow users to call and participate in OpenNIC votings and found, what looked like the perfect plugin: https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:doodle3

Quick testing of the plugin however showed that it has many bugs and some security issues, essentially rendering it unusable for our use-case, but I took some of my free time to look through the code of this plugin and write up our own OpenNIC voting platform plugin.

You can find the code on GitHub at https://github.com/opennic/dokuwiki-opennic-vote-plugin and there's an example voting happening on the Wiki right now: https://wiki.opennic.org/votes/piwik

Everyone, please let me know what you think about the idea of moving our voting over to the Wiki where we can have a clearly structured archive of voting results with documentation and historical information.

I'm willing to keep maintaining this plugin and extending its features¹ as required to fit our needs but for now I'd like to see if there's a chance at all that this gets accepted by the community.

Thank you for your attention and thanks for flying OpenNIC!

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Fusl


¹) One of the features I can think of right now would be a fully automated email to the OpenNIC mailing list when a new vote gets added to the Wiki.


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