open account requests

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote:

> 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.
>
> Would it be possible to have folks requesting access to a group to receive a
> mail with instructions on the requirements to join? And some other startup
> info (e.g., these are the mailing lists we work on, this is our wiki page,
> etc)
>

There is a join message for each group but I think not many people use it
:-/

	-Mike