On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 at 23:53, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation. How do we prevent it in future?
How often does it occur? > Can we add reserved names to https://people.apache.org/committer-index.html > which is where we send people to check if their preferred id is already > available? > Perhaps entries like this: > SVN ID Name > jacek <reserved> > > And surely we can add a red box warning for the secretary to understand that > this is a reserved name? Warning: the requested id is in the reserved-ids.yml > list. > (Proceed anyway?) Does it really matter why the id is invalid? Whatever the reason, it cannot be used. Seems like completely unnecessary work, given how infrequent this is. > Thanks, > Craig > > > On Jul 6, 2022, at 14:48, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Because it is not allowed. > > > > See reserved-ids.yml > > > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 at 19:14, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I filled the form and the committer id should be jacek. But the field is > >> red and it does not try to request the account. > >> > >> Any ideas? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Craig > >> > >> Craig L Russell > >> Assistant Secretary, Apache Software Foundation > >> c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo > >> > > Craig L Russell > c...@apache.org >
