On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Huib Laurens sterkebak@gmail.com wrote:
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...
When did this happen? Can you give me the ticket #? This absolutely should not have happened. If you have an existing account and you just need a key updated that's an automatic approval.
-Chad