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