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From: Matthew Marchese <maffblaster@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Project Members Without Wiki Accounts
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 19:09:22
Message-Id: 55AAA456.80803@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Project Members Without Wiki Accounts by Brian Dolbec
1 This came up again a few days ago. NP-Hard wanted to add some non-dev
2 project members that are helping with the MATE project.
3
4 a3li, you were bumped in #-wiki concerning it...since I found this
5 e-mail I guess it is something you support. Developers will be in
6 control of the non-dev members that get added to the project. I don't
7 see any issues with it.
8
9 On 6/1/2015 9:12 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
10 > On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:45:32 +0200
11 > Alex Legler <a3li@g.o> wrote:
12 >
13 >> On 6/1/15 at 5:35 PM, Michał Górny wote:
14 >>> […]
15 >>>
16 >>> Wiki doesn't allow adding non-developer accounts to projects.
17 >>>
18 >> Um, it was never possible to add non-developers. The GuideXML tag was
19 >> even called '<dev>' and expected a nickname present in the roll call
20 >> to look up real names and other information.
21 >>
22 >> I'd be glad to add a way for any wiki user to join projects and appear
23 >> in the proper listing if that is something ≥ a few projects want/need.
24 >>
25 > I have had to create a "wikitable" in several projects to at least list
26 > non-dev project contributors and members. It would be nice to
27 > have something similar to the dev member list which makes it easy to add
28 > other non-dev wiki account members.
29 >
30 > I must not be the only one that has done something like this.
31 >
32 > "If you build it, they will come" :)
33 >