On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 15:17 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
We're seeing more people joining Fedora and requesting to join various subprojects and SIGs. I suspect the ease of FAS2 combined with the fresh hoopla around the release has attracted people. Let's not disappoint them by leaving their request for a group in limbo. Yet ...
Some people seem to be requesting group access without first knowing what a group is or what they need to do, such as send a self-intro. My suggestion is to reject those after giving them sufficient time to do the self-intro etc.
We definitely do not want to sponsor people just because they checked a box and clicked Submit. Save your sponsorship for people who really mean to be there.
Also, I'm putting in an RFE for the account system to add a "reason" field with the rejection process[1], so we can explain why someone was rejected, such as not following the established process at ProjectName/Join. Meanwhile, it is probably a good practice to send an email to the person telling them they can re-apply after they follow the per-SIG/subproject steps for account access.
Yeah, as a "sponsor" in several groups, I get a lot of email for people requesting access that I don't rightly know I can approve. I admit I've been leaving them for a more informed person to deal with. Our various project Join pages don't make it clear that in many cases people don't need membership in these groups.