open account requests

[Máirín Duffy]

Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> We're seeing more people joining Fedora and requesting to join various
> subprojects and SIGs.  I suspect the ease of FAS2 combined with the
> fresh hoopla around the release has attracted people.  Let's not
> disappoint them by leaving their request for a group in limbo.  Yet ...
> 
> Some people seem to be requesting group access without first knowing
> what a group is or what they need to do, such as send a self-intro.  My
> suggestion is to reject those after giving them sufficient time to do
> the self-intro etc.  
> 
> We definitely do not want to sponsor people just because they checked a
> box and clicked Submit.  Save your sponsorship for people who really
> mean to be there.
> 
> Also, I'm putting in an RFE for the account system to add a "reason"
> field with the rejection process[1], so we can explain why someone was
> rejected, such as not following the established process at
> ProjectName/Join.  Meanwhile, it is probably a good practice to send an
> email to the person telling them they can re-apply after they follow the
> per-SIG/subproject steps for account access. 

Would it be possible to have folks requesting access to a group to 
receive a mail with instructions on the requirements to join? And some 
other startup info (e.g., these are the mailing lists we work on, this 
is our wiki page, etc)

~m