[Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #1231910] Ggradebook

[Therese Godefroy via RT]

Hello,

Norbert de Jonge (the original author of GNU gradebook) is unable to update the 
project's Savannah repo because he is not a member of the project -- his 
request for inclusion hasn't been processed yet. In fact, the former project 
admin is "inactive". Could you possibly add him manually? Thanks in advance.

He also makes an interesting suggestion to improve processing of the inclusion 
requests.

Best regards,
Therese


Le Mer 16 Aoû 2017 04:31:06, norbertdejonge a écrit :
[...] 
> > To do this, you need to become a member of the
> > GNU gradebook project. Use the "Request for
> > inclusion" form, accessible from this page: [...]
> 
> I submitted a request for inclusion literally many months ago. It still
> says "waiting for approval" (see attached image). When, after weeks of
> waiting, I still didn't hear back - no "we'll get back to you", no
> "not going to happen", no "please modify the request" - I did contact
> various people, including Brandon Invergo, who is mentioned as a
> member, but... just... nothing happened. I think maybe that whole
> approval process does not take into account that GNU projects can be
> orphaned/unmaintained. Maybe that needs some kind of technical
> solution, that those who request inclusion with orphaned/unmaintained
> get an auto-reply that another action should be taken first, or that a
> cron-job checks which inclusion requests have been active for more than
> two weeks or so. You get what I mean.
> 
> Best regards,
> Norbert