Automate nag emails for pending ACL/pkgdb requests?

[Jamie Nguyen]

On 23/11/15 16:31, Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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.


Is communication that much of a chore? ;-) Requesting ACLs isn't really
something the average packager does so many times a day that we need to
optimize it with a comment system.

Kind regards,
Jamie