Automate nag emails for pending ACL/pkgdb requests?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 16:31:29 UTC 2015


On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Jamie Nguyen <j at jamielinux.com> wrote:

> I don't think there are any official guidelines about ACL etiquette, but
> the approach I've always taken before requesting ACLs is to first post a
> comment on bugzilla or send an email to the owner(s) of the package to
> ask if they'd be happy, just to be polite.
>
> On quite a few occasions I've received an ACL request (or many) out of
> the blue from a packager I haven't had any associated communication from
> (via email or bugzilla). I just ignore these requests (and reject
> eventually after giving them a chance to offer any form of communication).


Perhaps the fix for this is to have a comments field when requesting access
to a package so you can easily do it in one step rather than have to use
something else for the communications part.

Thanks,
Richard
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