[OSGeo-Board] Members, roles, contacts

[Daniel Brookshier]

Hi Arnulf,

All registered members can be contacted via the OSGeo ID by emailing  
the ID at osgeo.org.

All of the roles available for requesting via the interface are read  
only roles for the repository. They can submit a file in docs &  
files, join email lists, and the forum if there is one enabled in the  
project. By joining a project, the user also gets announcements in  
their home page and a link to the project that they belong to.

Even though these are just read only roles, the requests have to be  
approved by the project owner. Normally this was because we allowed  
all roles to be requested. But allowing people to request these roles  
via the interface caused a lot of confusion. Now other roles with  
write capability must be assigned by the project owner. This was a  
specific modification we made to OSGeo.

Roles thus should be approved when you get them as they really have  
no affect other than the user showing interest in a project. There  
should be info on you project page that shows what the process is for  
becoming a project committer or other role.


Daniel Brookshier | Community Manager | CollabNet, Inc.
8000 Marina Blvd. Suite 600 | Brisbane, CA 94005 | USA
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On Apr 12, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

> Hi,
> I wonder how to contact people registered with OSGeo. For example  
> people requesting for roles in projects / committees. All that one  
> can see is a login name. So on what criteria should a committee  
> decide whether the requester is good for the role that he applies  
> for or not?
>
> This morning OSGeo told me that we have two pending roles:
> *   Pending roles in project visibilitycommittee (1)
> *   Pending roles in project mapbender (1)
>
> Sometimes there is a real name, sometimes not. Ideally we could  
> just hit a <mailto:> button and talk a little to the person before  
> actually hitting "Approve" or make people join the corresponding  
> mailing list before they can request for a role.
>
> Currently all I can do is directly "Approve Defer Disapprove" the  
> only "contact" being to disapprove and state why in the "Reason for  
> role disapproval".
>
> So currently I would have to include my personal email address in  
> the disapproval text field and ask the requester to give some  
> reasons as to why she is requesting. But then the whole concept for  
> requesting by hitting a button is useless.
>
> It would help if the requestress could (or is even required to)  
> enter a few lines stating why she wants to request for a role. And  
> then it would be helpful to actually be able to contact that person.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
>
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