Anthere wrote:

• request for having bot status. And here, yes, there is a lONNNNNNNG

waiting time. Because when we get request, we get them for 50 different projects sometimes. And mind you, this is *really* a boring task to do them one by one. Additionnaly, each project may have different rules for granting bot flag, so if we are serious, we must check each project rules. Not adding that sometimes, the bot creator fails to created the user name in the project, which is a loss of time for us.

All in all, the bot request is frankly the ***more*** painful by far. And granting bot access is likely not controversial. Which is why I support giving bureaucrat the ability of doing this.

I am not in position to give any indication if is good or not to give bureaucrat the ability of giving bot states, but if this is not done a way to reduce the stewards job is to request that the bit request is previously disscussed and approved locally (by the buroctrater, by a group of admins or by the comunity). The request to the steward should be have a link to the local discussion. (I perfectly know that if such a rule were in action you would still recive a lot of request without that, but this could be solved ... ahmmm ... just ignoring them as not conforming to the rules).

In such a way local comunity (or the burocrates) would be able to express thei opinion on the bot (conforming to local policy). The stweards would be the only people tecnically able to change the bot status flags on the database and he/she could still do any required checks, but in this way these checks should be easier.

I am conscious that there will be the problem to decide if an apeal would be possible in case of refuse from the local comunity, but this is a thing that can be discussed.

Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:

Anyway, I think that if stewards have to high of a load, make more stewards, don't delegate some of the power down.

This can reduce the job level, but even in this case I consider that my above suggestion could be still useful.

Although, it would be pretty neat for a bureocrat or admin to be able to grant rollback to trusted users.

Actually I do not understood why if an user is so trusted that rollback right could be given why admin staus should not be given to them.

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