[pmwiki-users] New module: Suffr
Kirk Zurell
kirk at zurell.name
Wed Jan 16 09:06:03 CST 2008
Hi all. I've added a new module that you might be interested in to the
Cookbook. Suffr (from "suffrage") is a PmWiki module that implements
democratic control of the underlying operating system. It's designed to
let Wiki users compose changes for the system's configuration, and then
vote/sign off on them; when they're approved, the module replaces RC
files, execs commands, or emits and invokes (bash) scripts.
Applications include all the usual sysadmin/dba tasks, everything from
running rc.d start/stop/restart to editing server process configs. It
could even edit PmWiki's config.php.
I created it to answer the question "who should be held responsible when
someone posts something objectionable?". Sysadmins who mightn't use the
Wiki themselves wouldn't want to answer for it. So with Suffr the users
who manage the Wiki also manage the webserver & OS.
It's just a proof of concept at this stage but it works (at least on my
test machine). It's by no means a safe idea yet; do not use on
production or testing machines or any computer you care about.
No claims that this is an original idea; would appreciate hearing of
others doing the same. Need more grist for the mill :)
In the zip I put a documentation page into wikilib.d; let me know if
this isn't wise.
Thanks for a really wonderful tool and the active community. Hope this
serves someone's needs.
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Suffr
Kirk Zurell
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
kirk at zurell.name
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