On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 08/22/2017 08:13 AM, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > as alioth is deprecated and will (more or less) get replaced with other > > services soon I disabled user creation and project creation on alioth. > > while I fully understand (and appreciate) the migration to something > better, depending on the "soon", disabling not just projects but also > user creation hurts collaborating on existing repositories with new > users/contributors. > > today my co-worker wanted to start working on the openstack > repositories, but can't, since he does not have an alioth account > already. we got another two persons during the openstack BoF that > expressed interested in contributing. > > I hope you reconsider disabling of user creation just yet, otherwise I > fear you would unnecessary have the burden of making the migration > hastily just to allow people to work on existing stuff. #alioth would have been a better place.
However, I already reconsidered reenabling usercreation after a discussion with the perl team. It is on my list for today. Alex
