Disclaimer:
The below are all my own opinions and 99.99% of the time aren't worth the time spent reading. Also the fact I use a modified version of English, Australian, and was more interested in watching clouds at school or seeing how long it took to get chucked out of the class, record was walking in the door, not saying a word and being asked to leave,may also make the below difficult to make sense of.
Whether you believe something to be this way or that way doesn't make it so. The only way to find out for sure is to ask, sometimes those that hold that info may not want to share.
User structure, who edits what.
Hmm not too sure about that or what you mean.
Who can put new versions of LinuxCNC online?
I'd be guessing the core dev team, I generally just build from source and make my own deb packages. Actually when I was sharing my Mint iso I was also putting up new packages, the Debian pacakges weren't an easy install on Mint at the time, on a server I paid for myself (along with the domain name). I got the hump with people expecting weekly updates, the depression started hitting me hard so I said, fuck em.
Who edits the wiki?
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BasicSteps
I haven't felt the need to, plus I'm not good at explaining stuff. I doubt many are aware that it exists. I doubt many realise Linuxcnc has a home page or any other pages apart from the forum. There's a lot of historical info there on the wiki. In reality it comes down to users adding to the wiki, if no one wants to add anything it may stay, shall we say stale. In saying that it does make for an interesting read. Tho we seem to be in a culture where everything needs to be up the minute relevant.
Forum admins ?
I guess the guys that are the most knowledgable, have the best input (and don't lose their rag or spit the dummy..you know stable sort of chaps) and are chosen, via whatever method, by the other admins. Not something that I feel a regular user should be concerned about.
If you really are concerned about the direction of things it may be of use to join the mailing list and start asking questions there.
To tell the truth I've never had any security issues come from using the forum. I can't remember it being down to some "script kiddie" or other nefarious player. Sure from time to time the spammers turn up. Tommy & co usually jump on it quick. There also the chance to be active if this respect and report it.
