[arch-dev-public] {archweb} Access to devs/tu to change their profiles.

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:00:20 -0500
Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
> > <ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:
> >> 2010/10/5 Ángel Velásquez <angvp at archlinux.org>
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I wrote a patch days ago, adding the feature of allow a dev/tu, to
> >>> change their profile_page info.
> >>>
> >>> However Dan an Dusty thought this came up in the past, and wasn't
> >>> accepted, I would like to know why wasn't accepted, or why it
> >>> shouldn't be accepted this patch.
> >>>
> >>> We tried to look on the history but we didn't found anything.
> >>>
> >>> Any info could be appreciated!, thanks.
> >>>
> >> I don't remember this being discussed before, and think it'd be
> >> beneficial. I know I've got info that should be updated on my
> >> profile.
> >>
> >
> > This would be before your time probably. :) It was back when Eliott
> > or Dusty were maintaining archweb; I remember something coming up.
> > Aaron, if I remember right, you had a -1 vote against this before;
> > am I making things up?
> 
> For people being able to edit their own profiles? I don't recall
> discussing it. I'm for it, actually. As long as some things (Role,
> etc) can't be changed, then I see no issue with it. In fact, I may
> have explicitly asked for this in the past when people used to send me
> dev pictures to update their profile with maybe once a week :)

would maybe be cool if people could clone a git repo, update their
settings, and send a pull request.

yeah yeah, i can see some practical limitations as well. just thinking
out loud :)

Dieter