Minor annoyance in ConfirmAccount

Robert Middleswarth robert at middleswarth.net
Fri Sep 7 14:12:17 UTC 2012


On 09/07/2012 10:06 AM, Steve Gordon wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dave Neary" <dneary at redhat.com>
>> To: infra at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 2:20:15 PM
>> Subject: Minor annoyance in ConfirmAccount
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have one minor annoyance in the ConfirmAccount extension - there's
>> no
>> email notification when people apply for a wiki account.
>>
>> I see that there is a config option "$wgConfirmAccountContact" which
>> you
>> can set to an email address/alias, but there is not any way to have
>> an
>> email sent to all bureaucrats that I can see. It looks like it could
>> be
>> pretty easy to add that feature, though - any interest?
>>
>> Alternatively, we could add infra@ as the address where new requests
>> get
>> sent (I don't imagine we'll get a lot of them). How does that sound
>> as a
>> plan?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave.
> Seems reasonable to me. I can't see us getting flooded with legitimate requests, and if we get flooded with illegitimate requests some time down the track that is something we would want to address separately anyway ;).
>
> Steve
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Not everyone on the infra list can confirm an account.  It would be 
better to send it to all bureaucrats then to send peoples personal 
information to an open list with a public archive.

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Thanks
Robert Middleswarth
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