I wonder what the demography is of contributors. Are they all contributors and list members, or is there a reasonable portion of users that just walk by, fix something and walk on.
On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > 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 > <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> 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 <bchesn...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Friday, October 21, 2011, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: >>>>>> To JIRA you mean? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> yes >>>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Benoit Chesneau < >> bchesn...@gmail.com >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> >>>>> 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 >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>
