On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Florian Schmidt <
[email protected]> wrote:

> So, I was wondering, if, and if yes how, I, as a community contributor,
> could be a member of the Wikimedia organization on github. I searched on
> mediawiki.org and wikitech, but couldn't find a policy or information page
> about it, and that's what this thread should be all about :P
>
> I asked hashar and he looked at the people, who are already part of the
> org,
> and found some volunteers, so he invited me, too. However, I think we
> should've at least a broader discussion, and hopefully we can create a help
> page or a public policy for if, when and how a volunteer developer can be a
> member of the Wikimedia org on github.
>

It seems like being a member does not give you any rights that could be
problematic [1][2] as long as repo creation is not allowed to members, so
we should probably just set up a bot to automatically add (or offer to
automatically add) every commit author who can be identified.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/permission-levels-for-an-organization/
[2]
https://help.github.com/articles/repository-permission-levels-for-an-organization/
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