Re: cvs account requests

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Georg Richter wrote: > > as a simple optimization, can we disallow requests with a single-word > > reason from ever reaching the account request system? > > > > Shouldn't we generally first give an cvs account after the person which > requested this account sent a patch (patch != typo fix). > > According to Nuno Lopez's statistics (Zero commits: > http://testes.aborla.net/ > zero.html) we have a lot of accounts which never submitted a line of code > (but according to google use a php.net mail address). It's not quite that simple. Just off the top I recognize a number of those accounts on that zero.html list as being folks who manage the user notes, for example. They would never have committed anything to CVS and in fact they for the most part don't have karma to commit anything, but for the sake of not having multiple user account systems we use the CVS user list to authenticate folks for notes management, bugs management, etc. About a year and a half ago I went through the CVS history and identified about 400 accounts as far as I remember that hadn't committed anything and had their account more than 2 years. I poked all of these people at their listed email addresses and ended up deleting about 200 accounts. It might be time to do another run -Rasmus