Hi, On 17 April 2016 at 16:58, ⚛ <0xe2.0x9a.0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Secondly, the content of the wiki page feels overly bureaucratic to me. Not > in absolute sense, but in relative sense: when compared to services such as > github.com, the freedesktop.org wiki page feels like a nice example of > excessive bureaucracy. Why does the wiki page use so many words to describe > how to make an account request (in year 2016)? > > I wouldn't care about the content of the wiki page at all if there existed > an alternative web page that would make the process of creating an account > request simpler. "Simpler" web page in my opinion means a web form with just > a few fields, a single button and several sentences of text. Many account > registration web pages around the world look like that, because it is less > time consuming and therefore more efficient/productive. > > What is the logic/rationale explaining the content of > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests/? I am unable to find an > explanation for it.
The simple explanation is that our available admin time, and keeping the infrastructure running, stable, and performant is already surprisingly time-consuming. The coda to that is that GitHub is open to everyone as a general-purpose hosting service, where you can put whatever you want there. On the other hand, fd.o accounts are only given out to active contributors to a relatively small number of projects (infinitesmally so, compared to GitHub's 35 million repositories), and so optimising the account-creation process is not a particularly high priority compared to other infrastructure work. That being said, making it easier to create and administer accounts is on our to-do list, and the infrastructure work to let us do it is about half-complete. Not that it seems like it applies to you anyway, since we do require real names for accounts. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
