request for write permissions to add new svn members

[dassau]

Hi,

as community-team lead of the qgis project, I would like to be able to grant write permissions for new manual contributors to the qgis docs repository.

example: ​https://www.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/auth/ldap_group.py?new_member=<user>&group=qgis_docs&ou=svn

can you give me write permissions to do that? My osgeo id is dassau.

Thanks

Otto

[crschmidt]

dassau:

In general, SAC is not responsible for this type of change. Instead, any member of the qgis_docs group can grant you this permission, by adding you to the docs group. This way, SAC is not responsible for maintaining the membership of the projects, instead leaving that up to the projects themselves.

Please ask one of the existing members of the qgis_docs team -- timlinux or gsherman seem reasonable candidates -- to add you to the qgis_docs group, at which point, you should be able to add other users to the group.

If there is some technical problem causing this solution to not work, please let us know, and we will investigate.

Best Regards, Christopher Schmidt Systems Administration

[crschmidt]

dassau:

I see that timlinux misunderstood the situation when he responded to your email on the qgis list. He should be able to add you to this group. I have let him know this, so that hopefully he ecan help you out.

[dassau]

Christopher,

ok - thanks, but just to be clear again - it is not that i need write access - i have. I want to be able to provide write access to other users / contributors. Still a task for Tim?

regards,

Otto

[crschmidt]

dassau:

You have commit access because you are a member of the 'qgis' group, which presumably has repository-wide access. You are not a member of the qgis_docs group; until that is the case, you can not add others to the qgis_docs group. Once you are, you will see an "Add" button at the bottom of the group page via which you can add people through.

Asking an existing member of the qgis_docs group is the way to get into that group.

[crschmidt]

dassau:

timlinux points out that 'odassau' is a member of that group, but 'dassau' is not; which name are you currently using?

[dassau]

oh, i use dassau

[dassau]

btw: is it possible to remove an old osgeo id, in my case "odassau"?

[warmerdam]

It is not convenient to delete old osgeo id's. However, you can cease so use them. It may also help to edit the entry using the standard tools, and change the name to indicate that it is deprecated. The edit mechanism is at:

​https://www.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/auth/ldap_edit_user.py