[Grub-dev] managing grub downloads the wiki way

[jer]

If this has been tried or is in use elsewhere I'd love to learn more,  
but we have a need to let the community openly manage access to the  
resources we're jointly building, namely the source crawl data and  
resulting index.

I'm approaching this very simply, that there would be a site like  
cp.grub.org that would only host the bulk data sources and you'd need  
to authenticate using your wiki username.  The web server would  
simply log how much you transferred, and these logs would be  
aggregated into a few special reports that anyone can keep an eye  
on.  Any user could be blocked from just the cp.grub.org and would  
have to make a case (on their talk page?) if they feel they shouldn't  
be.

We'd need to develop a good social policy about handling these  
functions, at what point is someone downloading too much, what kind  
of reasons are there for needing access, etc.  In the beginning the  
data will be rather small and unimportant, but as it grows so will  
the need to be more and more careful, so I want to make sure everyone  
starts thinking about this process ahead of time.

Jer