No way to approve a person for a team via their /people/ page

We send out notifications to team owners when people add themselves as proposed members. These notifications include the correct URL to access the page.

Do you think that's sufficient to mitigate this issue, or should we really list proposed team memberships on the person's page if you are a team administrator?

Christian Reis <email address hidden> writes:

> We send out notifications to team owners when people add themselves as
> proposed members. These notifications include the correct URL to access
> the page.
>
> Do you think that's sufficient to mitigate this issue, or should we
> really list proposed team memberships on the person's page if you are a
> team administrator?

It does mitigates it to a degree. But IMO if people have applied for
a public team[1] that should be shown on their person page. Clearly
marked as "applied for but not yet approved" of course, but still
shown.

If nothing else it's useful information to spot iconemon-ers (people
who collect team memberships like Pokemon toys) who I've seen too many
times amonst ubuntu-members applicants.

--
James

[1] I don't think we yet have the concept of private teams?

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:38:25PM -0000, James Troup wrote:
> It does mitigates it to a degree. But IMO if people have applied for
> a public team[1] that should be shown on their person page. Clearly
> marked as "applied for but not yet approved" of course, but still
> shown.

Okay. Should it be shown to everybody, or just to people who
administrate the teams the user is applying for? If to everybody, should
we offer to administrators an additional link to allow them to easily
approve or deny the application?

> [1] I don't think we yet have the concept of private teams?

We don't yet -- if you know the team's name you can search and locate
it, and you can navigate extensively through all the team names (but why
would you want to waste the rest of your life doing that?).

Christian Reis <email address hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:38:25PM -0000, James Troup wrote:
>> It does mitigates it to a degree. But IMO if people have applied for
>> a public team[1] that should be shown on their person page. Clearly
>> marked as "applied for but not yet approved" of course, but still
>> shown.
>
> Okay. Should it be shown to everybody, or just to people who
> administrate the teams the user is applying for?

I would say everybody - if team membership is not private information,
I don't see why application to a team should be.

> If to everybody, should we offer to administrators an additional
> link to allow them to easily approve or deny the application?

That would be nice, and is the original point of this bug ... :-)

--
James

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