Re: CVS Account Request

I was thinking that it might work to bring up a list of links: Why do you need a CVS account? <a href="denied.php">Study</a> <a href="denied.php">Practice my code reading skills</a> <a href="submit_patch.php">Fix bugs</a> And so on. On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Matt McClanahan wrote the following to php-dev@lists.p...: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > > root@php2.chek.com wrote: > > > Full name: Mustafa Gullu > > > Email: dermanyeri@hotmail.com > > > ID: gullu > > > Purpose: Web design > > > > I think we should need some really newbie-proof text on php.net > > regarding who needs a CVS account, and who doesn't. -- > > I'm not sure how much more newbie-proof the text could be. It's fairly > blunt, and quite explicit about why a person doesn't need a CVS account. > If I had to guess, I'd say people applying for accounts are simply > scrolling past the text until they can find a form to fill in. > > A regex filter was suggested to auto-block requests that use certain > words (study, reading, authoring, using...) and that would probably help > at least somewhat. If such words were triggered, the error message could > duplicate the list of reasons you don't need an account, and ask "Now, are > you -sure- you need this account?". Or maybe a list of past denied > appliations could be posted, to give real-world examples of accounts that > weren't necessary. > > I wonder if requiring the purpose to be more specific would help.. > > Matt > > >