Hi Russell,

It seemed to me that this page wasn't nearly as good an introduction to 
contributing to Django as the contributing guide from the official docs, so I 
trimmed it and pointed to the docs instead.

In fact, I started by removing incorrect or outdated information — for 
instance, the workflow described in the page dated back to the pre-git era, 
replacing get_absolute_url appeared to be the main current project while no one 
has worked on it for years, etc. A few minutes later there was so little left 
that I simply rewrote the page.

Generally speaking, I don't believe we'll ever manage to keep the wiki 
sufficiently accurate and up to date to make it useful. Last year I tried to 
look for spam links (with a script) and scrub them, but there were so many that 
I gave up. In my opinion, the viable alternative to our self-hosted wiki is 
called the World Wide Web :-)

Feel free to restore and perhaps update the previous content. I believe it did 
more harm than good, but as long as it remains clear that you need to 
authenticate before you can file a ticket, we'll be all right!

-- 
Aymeric.

> Le 13 août 2014 à 01:21, Russell Keith-Magee <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
> 
> Hi Aymeric,
> 
> I just noticed that the content on the wiki homepage has been massively 
> altered, replaced with a "please login with GitHub" text. Was this change 
> deliberate?
> 
> The wiki landing page is linked from the homepage as code.djangoproject.com, 
> and has always held a collection of useful information about what someone who 
> wants to contribute could do. As it currently stands, code.djangoproject.com 
> doesn't serve as a very inviting introduction to potential contributors. 
> Would you object to me restoring the older content, merging it with the 
> "please login with GitHub text"?
> 
> Russ %-)
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Aymeric Augustin 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Don't worry, I remapped permissions to GitHub usernames. Curtis, I 
>> lowercased your username, you should still have admin rights.
>> 
>> There were a few usernames I had never seen and couldn't identify. If you 
>> think you lost permissions, please get in touch privately.
>> 
>> As said earlier by Florian, it's always been possible to put any username 
>> when commenting anonymously, and that has never been an issue.
>> 
>> Trac accounts only store the username to save the need to type it every time 
>> (and notification preferences but we use django-updates instead).
>> 
>> The core dev highlighting hasn't been fixed yet, but it's just a cosmetic 
>> thing, it doesn't give any permissions.
>> 
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