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[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 9 December 2011 at 19:01:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Great. The remaining mid-term issue is as follows. Right now 
> you own the database, which entails some fiduciary 
> responsibilities. Think "unexpected": if e.g. you get hit by a 
> bus (God forbid), the database is virtually lost. This scenario 
> is solved by your granting e.g. Walter access to the server, so 
> he can copy the database and possibly migrate the installation.
>
> But then say you and Walter have a huge disagreement over a 
> core issue, which makes you furious. Then you could revoke 
> Walter's login and/or destroy the database. And so on.

I must confess I have not considered for such a possibility. You 
are welcome to make periodic backups, of course.

> Also, privacy is not a biggie right now because the database 
> contains public information plus some simple preferences, but 
> later you could store additional information of various degrees 
> of sensitivity. So you would in fact responsible for users' 
> privacy, but d-programming-language.org is the ostensible 
> responsible.

Once the software is stable enough, we could move it together 
with the database to a DigitalMars server. Software solutions 
might also be possible (e.g. encrypting user data with their 
passwords).

Another possibility is to simply make it clear who is responsible 
for the data.