I have to say that I have the same expirance with the
current process for
requesting commit access.
I currently have access to SVN, it was given to me 2 years ago by
TimStarling. But i changed my key(s) but it didn't change for Wikimedia. So
I requested Sumana to close my old account and give me a new account with a
better name.
This was her responds:
Hi Huib,
I apologize for the late response. After some discussion, we decided that
the best
way to proceed is for you to submit your proposed improvements as a patch in
bugzilla.wikimedia.org, or make your extension public on
mediawiki.org
(
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions). This gives us a much
better
idea of what your proposal is and makes it a lot easier to review.
Sincerely,
Priyanka Dhanda
So I was already given access, but by error I lost the key and now got
removed.
I don't really think the current proces is helping to get more volunteers...
Best,
Huib Laurens
WTF?
I think Priyanka completely confused your request when making your reply.
Getting the key replace should be no problem. I recommend you to try to
an op on irc.