On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 15:17 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > We're seeing more people joining Fedora and requesting to join various > subprojects and SIGs. I suspect the ease of FAS2 combined with the > fresh hoopla around the release has attracted people. Let's not > disappoint them by leaving their request for a group in limbo. Yet ... > > Some people seem to be requesting group access without first knowing > what a group is or what they need to do, such as send a self-intro. My > suggestion is to reject those after giving them sufficient time to do > the self-intro etc. > > We definitely do not want to sponsor people just because they checked a > box and clicked Submit. Save your sponsorship for people who really > mean to be there. > > Also, I'm putting in an RFE for the account system to add a "reason" > field with the rejection process[1], so we can explain why someone was > rejected, such as not following the established process at > ProjectName/Join. Meanwhile, it is probably a good practice to send an > email to the person telling them they can re-apply after they follow the > per-SIG/subproject steps for account access. Yeah, as a "sponsor" in several groups, I get a lot of email for people requesting access that I don't rightly know I can approve. I admit I've been leaving them for a more informed person to deal with. Our various project Join pages don't make it clear that in many cases people don't need membership in these groups. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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