On 10/03/2011 01:48 PM, Happy Melon wrote:
On 3 October 2011 18:00, Jack Phoenix jack@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.