At 2025-09-09T10:54:29-0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/9/25 10:23 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: [Martin D. Kealey wrote:] > > > Savane <https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/administration> (the > > > software that runs on Savannah) only seems to offer “group > > > membership” roles as a way to restrict who can make changes, > > > meaning that all group membership has to be approved by existing > > > maintainers; > > > > Correct, because "group membership" appears to be its parlance for > > "development team". > > You can be an administrator or a contributor. I am an administrator > for two groups: Bash and Readline.
In groff's group membership list, categories seem to be arranged a little differently, into "technicians", "tracker managers", and "group admins". https://savannah.gnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group=groff But this wouldn't be the first time I've noticed Savannah's site documentation being a bit loose with terminology. On other hand, I am an irascible stickler for same, and swift to critique inconsistency. > Being a contributor means being one of the developers: "Type below the > name of the group you want to contribute to. Joining a group means > getting write access to the repositories of the group, and involves > responsibilities." Can you share a link to where you see that? In groff we recently had a person petition to join the team via _email_. I didn't know this Web-based interface for requesting membership existed, and I handled the request inefficiently and somewhat clumsily. > > > if it does implement observer status then that feature is not > > > enabled on Savannah. > > Anyone can be an observer. Does that mean they get emailed on all ticket activity (barring the ticket being marked "private", I suppose--a feature groff has never used)? If so that's definitely good news for me, and, it would seem, a further surprise to Martin D. Kealey. Thanks for helping me to understand Savannah better. Regards, Branden
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