Talk:Developer account/Archive 1

I suggest this page become the new Commit access page, and that Commit access be moved to Commit access/Subversion until Subversion is fully read-only.

Reasons:
 * 1) The Project: namespace isn't really helpful in a wiki that has no "articles" as such. It's just one more thing to remember.
 * 2) We're pointing to commit access from lots of places, so let's make sure it carries the correct information.

(Alternatively, we could also rename Commit access to Developer access to be more generic.)

--Eloquence (talk) 21:54, 23 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Done. I went with developer access since we're rolling several permissions into one process here.--Eloquence (talk) 17:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)


 * To be honest, the title makes me think its about shell access for some reason, I'm not sure why. Bawolff (talk) 14:20, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Request fields
Shouldn't this page give users a field for their preferred shell name as well? We don't want to force "Joe Smith" to use Joe_Smith@ when they really want jsmith@.

The examples should be better. The example uses "Dogmaster3000" as the user's MW.org name and as the preferred name, when in reality the proper practice is not to match your wiki name but to use the name you want to use in user.name.

This also doesn't properly articulate the relationship between Labsconsole username, git user.name, and the real name practice and between gerrit shell, labs shell, and svn shell. We have people in #mediawiki confused about this. Daniel Friesen (Dantman) (talk) 22:14, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The example is fixed and the template is fixed. The relationship among those 5-6 different names, not addressed yet. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 21:56, 3 April 2012 (UTC)