Yeah, I don't think we need a Procedure™ in place for this. Basically, as long as a wiki admin adds you to the contributor list, you're good to go. How you reach out to that admin, or how they find out about your request, is unimportant. We should present plenty of options for people to contact one of us.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 21, 2011, at 18:57 , Noah Slater wrote: > > > >> Sounds good to me. > > > > "Open a JIRA to get a wiki account" sounds very bad to me. > > > > I understand we gotta get the spam under control, but asking > > people to sign up in two places and put a potentially long > > manual setup process will kill almost any contribution energy. > > Heck, I try to avoid the wiki as much as I can as is. > > > > <insert handwavey suggestion to a better alternative> > > > > (I got nothing for now apart from moving to a better wiki, sorry) > > > > Cheers > > Jan > > -- > > > > I agree with Jan about multiple signups. I'd say an email to any list > or any IRC request is more than enough to get wiki edits is fine. > > > > > > > > > > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected] > >wrote: > >> > >>> On Friday, October 21, 2011, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> To JIRA you mean? > >>>> > >>> > >>> yes > >>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Benoit Chesneau < > [email protected] > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>>>>> Hey, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On advice from Gavin McDonald, I'd like to suggest that we lock down > >>> the > >>>>>> wiki to a list of pre-approved users. To get approved to make edits, > >>> you > >>>>>> would submit a request to one of the mailing lists or to one of the > >>> wiki > >>>>>> admins or committers. That's it. It should remove the need to > protect > >>>>> pages > >>>>>> like the "in the wild" stuff and the people on the couch. Other > >>> projects > >>>>>> have implemented this and they get absolutely no spam as a result. > >>>>>> Infrastructure suggested we move to it, and I wanna see what people > >>> think > >>>>>> about it. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> More info here: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> +1 > >>>>> > >>>>> Maybe approval requests could also be submitted as tickets? > >>>>> > >>>>> - benoit > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > > > > >
