Re: [Savannah-hackers] disable Request for Inclusion

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:05:17PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to disable the feature "Request for Inclusion" against my 
> project (GRUB). Is this possible?
> 
> In my experience, this feature is not very useful but rather annoying. 
> Most people who did this request to GRUB were always very ambiguous 
> about what they wanted to do. As far as I see, they even don't 
> understand what "Request for Inclusion" is.
> 
> Since inclusion gives them write permission to the CVS, I cannot accept 
> their requests unless I know them very well. And, if I know them well, 
> they normally don't have to send any request from the web interface, 
> because we talk in a different place (such as IRC) so I know who should 
> be included in my project.
> 
> It might be better to show a message instead of just disabling it. For 
> example, I'd like to display this kind of message when a user tries to 
> be included in our project:
> 
> Thank you for your interest on our project. Please subscribe to the 
> mailing list address@hidden for discussion. You can get other useful 
> information from blah blah...

This is not supported by Savane and I can't trivialy be done.
However, I think it can be a good idea, and I added it to our TODO list.

-- 
Sylvain