[Openstack-security] Question on Documentation Comments (Discuss and Data Sharing)

Anne Gentle anne.gentle at RACKSPACE.COM
Mon Oct 21 13:59:27 UTC 2013


Sorry for the inserted inline without the original post, but I wanted to address Jeffrey's questions on the list.

(1) Who/what is Disqus.com?
A third-party site used for comments on the blog and docs site.

(2) Why am I required to share information with Disqus.com?

Please use the doc bug link instead.

(3) How do I opt-out of their obscene Terms of Service?

By not using Disqus, using ask.openstack.org or the link to Launchpad instead. Let me know your goal for using Disqus at all and we can evaluate whether the other means solve your problem.

(4) If they monetize the data, how do I collect my share of the profits?

We are vigilant about refusing to enable monetization on the OpenStack docs sites, but see below for our replacement idea as we'd like input.

(5) How does forcing users to share data further the goals of OpenStack?

As a service we have tried to tweak the settings as much as possible to meet our needs but we are taking steps towards replacing it. We have:
1. Added the doc bug link to each page so that you don't have to use comments to report a doc bug.
2. Intend to replace with integration with ask.openstack.org in the Icehouse release.
3. Changed the settings so no OpenStack docs properties are monetized. Yes, I know that somehow Disqus makes money, but we're not purposely using our comments to monetize for OpenStack.

Please send comments on https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+spec/redesign-docs-site so we can shape it.

Thanks,
Anne


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