[OpenID board] BOARD VOTE: Motion to update Rails plugin and OpenID.net ...

[DeWitt Clinton]

So the Rails part is incidental, right?  Thus the motion could be rephrased
as "pay Refresh Media $2k to upgrade their plugin to support OpenID 2.0 and,
as per the usual arrangement, open source the code"?

If so, I have no objections to that motion per se, but I'd also say a) the
executive committee should be able to authorize this spending out of a
pre-approved budget and hence it shouldn't need a board vote, and b) I'd
rather us not vote on anything non-critical until the incoming BoD is in
place in a couple of weeks.

I very much like Brian's earlier point about making sure that the new ED and
incoming board have as much of a budget to work with as possible.

So -1 unless I hear a compelling argument as to why we need to do this right
now.

-DeWitt

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Scott Kveton <scott at kveton.com> wrote:

> > PHP version seems to be running fine, why Ruby-on-Rails really? Of course
> > getting it fixed is perhaps a good thing too....just wondering, is there
> a
> > high usage/interest in rails?
>
> The membership software for the OIDF is written in Rails.
>
> I can't speak to the usage/interest in Rails as a platform but it
> seems to be rather prevalent (like frameworks for PHP, Django for
> Python, etc).
>
> - Scott
>
>
>
>
> > On 12/18/2008 04:30 AM, Scott Kveton:
> >
> > Sorry for the all-caps ... just trying to get folks attention.
> >
> > RPX was deployed onto the OIDF members page earlier this month and
> > there were a few concerns around the use of a non-vendor neutral
> > technology for something like foundation voting.  In addition, the
> > Ruby plugin for OpenID has not be upgraded to meet the 2.0
> > specification needs.  It was agreed to leave RPX in place until the
> > end of the election but I'd like to make a motion around fixing the
> > plugin and putting the membership software back where it was:
> >
> > As per the attached proposal I would like the OIDF to engage Refresh
> > Media to update the Rails OpenID plugin and then deploy the OpenID
> > 2.0-compliant version for the membership system.  Total cost will be
> > $1500-$2000 and the patches to the plugin will be submitted back to
> > the Ruby community as open source and available for all Rails users.
> > This motion will require responses from 7 board members with at least
> > 4 +1's (57.1% in favor) from those responses by Wednesday 12/24/2008.
> >
> > - Scott
> >
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