Hi all, ASF Infra has confirmed to me that only ASF committers can access the ASF Confluence site since a recent change. One of the results of this decision is that users can't signup and access Confluence, so only committers+ can create FLIPs.
ASF Infra hopes to improve this situation when they move to the Cloud shortly (as in: some months), but they haven't committed on an actual date. The idea would be that we find a temporary solution until anyone can request access to Confluence. There are a couple of ways we could resolve this situation: 1. Contributors create a Google Doc and make that view-only, and post that Google Doc to the mailing list for a discussion thread. When the discussions have been resolved, the contributor ask on the Dev mailing list to a committer/PMC to copy the contents from the Google Doc, and create a FLIP number for them. The contributor can then use that FLIP to actually have a VOTE thread. 2. We could consider moving FLIPs to "Discussions" on Github, like Airflow does at https://github.com/apache/airflow/discussions 3. Perhaps someone else has another good idea. Looking forward to your thoughts. Best regards, Martijn
