Hi folks, Following a recent discussion on sage-devel [1], I've created a new Google Group called "sage-trac-account" at
https://groups.google.com/group/sage-trac-account The purpose of this group is to manage the accout system on the Sage trac at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ The idea is that a group of people will act as managers/moderators of new and existing accounts on trac. Here's a summary of the work flow. People who have privileges to create accounts on trac will be managers/moderators of that group. This means that they will be notified of all new requests for accounts on trac. When one manager accepts an account request, the person requesting the account will become a member of the group. When any member wants to modify their account, they could easily do so themselves without emailing the group. But if a person wants to delete their account, I think that would require them to email the group. How are managers to handle new account requests? For example, say Henrietta Hacker wants a trac account. How would she go about doing so? Here's a work flow: She requests to join the sage-trac-account group, but should not provide any information such as account name and password. The request to join sage-trac-account is only a first step in screening out spammers. If the request is accepted, a group manager will directly contact Henrietta to obtain the login credentials. Here's a boilerplate reply email: <template> Hi Henrietta, Welcome to the Sage community. Before your trac account could be setup, the account managers need the following information from you: * Real name * Preferred username * Preferred contact email address Based on the above information, a manager would setup your trac account with a random password. When you login to trac for the first time, remember to change your account's password. Regards, The Sage trac account managers </template> And here's a boilerplate email after Henrietta's account has been setup: <template> Hi Henrietta, Your trac account is now up and ready. Here are your login credentials: * Username: h.hacker * Password: <random-password> On your first login, please change your account's password. Regards, The Sage trac account managers </template> The above process should be handled carefully to ensure that details provided by Henrietta are only visible to trac account managers. [1] https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/d90e02777b814624/ -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
