On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Florian Schmidt < florian.schmidt.welzow@t-online.de> wrote:
So, I was wondering, if, and if yes how, I, as a community contributor, could be a member of the Wikimedia organization on github. I searched on mediawiki.org and wikitech, but couldn't find a policy or information page about it, and that's what this thread should be all about :P
I asked hashar and he looked at the people, who are already part of the org, and found some volunteers, so he invited me, too. However, I think we should've at least a broader discussion, and hopefully we can create a help page or a public policy for if, when and how a volunteer developer can be a member of the Wikimedia org on github.
It seems like being a member does not give you any rights that could be problematic [1][2] as long as repo creation is not allowed to members, so we should probably just set up a bot to automatically add (or offer to automatically add) every commit author who can be identified.
[1] https://help.github.com/articles/permission-levels-for-an-organization/ [2] https://help.github.com/articles/repository-permission-levels-for-an-organiz...