So that I can respond to commit access requests in a more prompt and
standardised manner, I've set up an OTRS queue:
commit-access-requests(a)wikimedia.org. I will get an email notification
when new tickets are opened in it. It has the same permissions as the
noc queue, but I imagine I'll be the only one looking at it for a while.
Moving to OTRS will make dialog with requesters easier and more reliable.
I will shortly migrate the outstanding requests to the queue, and
update the
mediawiki.org page to indicate that new requests should be
sent to it.
I have modified the approval response template to encourage new users
to create a user page on
mediawiki.org. This means that there will
still be a chance for new users to interact with
mediawiki.org
regulars and to talk about their projects.
-- Tim Starling