Re: [Inkscape-devel] Turning off gitlab's "Allow users to request access"?

-- Mc On 01/13/2018 06:28 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > There's a setting "Allow users to request access" on our Inkscape main > group (https://gitlab.com/inkscape). I'd like to switch it to 'off'. > Are there any objections if I did this? > > This setting adds a button to our website for logged in users to push to > send an email to our admins asking for membership to the inkscape main > group. The effect of this gives them commit access on the inkscape repo > (and I suspect maybe other git repos in subgroups; I'm not sure how the > permissions propagate.) > > This was useful initially when everyone was needing gitlab access, but I > think all the existing committers that want it have it. These days the > requests we're getting are mostly from people with no registered > activity related to Inkscape; we've been getting a handful of these > invalid requests each month. Maybe they're clicking it on accident, or > thinking that it's an affiliation mark, and not realizing that it gives > full commit rights if granted. > > Turning it off simply removes the button, it wouldn't mean any change to > our existing policies regarding earning of commit rights - applicants > still need to get two patches reviewed, accepted, and landed and then > contact one of the administrators to request access. (If we want to > make this simpler later on, maybe one day we can rig up a form where > they can enter the SHAs of their two patches.) > > Bryce > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >