On 10/03/2011 01:48 PM, Happy Melon wrote:
On 3 October 2011 18:00, Jack Phoenix
<jack(a)countervandalism.net> wrote:
... I liked it when commit access requests were on the
MediaWiki.org
wiki ([[mw:Commit access requests]]) -- IMO it was a better and more
transparent way to manage commit access requests than an OTRS queue or
whatever is used nowadays; then again, I'm just giving suggestions here,
I'm
not here to make any decisions as I'm not employed by the Foundation.
The biggest problem of the old
mw.org queue was that it was simply neglected
for months at a time; my own commit access request was up there for over six
months before *anyone* looked at it *at all*. I agree that it was more
transparent and maybe 'better'; but the most important requirement of the
system is that it *works* and is used. If the OTRS queue works for the
current svn admins, then that's an important merit.
--HM
The current system gets applicants responses usually within a week,
sometimes two or three weeks. During the old system it was sometimes
months. Right now, we're backlogged, mostly because we skipped one of
the weekly commit access queue review meetings during the 1.18 deploy
crunch.
I think another reason the current system works is because that weekly
meeting is only 15-20 minutes, so admins consistently attend them. :-)
Almost all of that time is code review and discussion of the candidate,
because I try to go into the queue ahead of time and look for incomplete
applications, ask for code samples, ask for ssh keys, and take care of
other administrivia. So if we implement my proposal and you participate
in one of these meetings, your time won't be wasted.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation