Re: [Savannah-help-public] Problem adding a member to the `emacs' group

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:48:15AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> If you do not login to savannah and go to
> >> 
> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs
> >> 
> >> and then click on "Project Memberlist", you get a list of members and
> >> before that a little blurb that says:
> >> 
> >> If you would like to contribute to this project by becoming a member,
> >> contact one of the project admins, designated in bold text below. 
> >> 
> >> but this is misleading since really to become a member you need to go
> >> through the "request for inclusion" thingy, and contacting one of the
> >> project admins won't directly help.
> 
> > The blurb actually contains a link to the "request for inclusion"
> > form.  However, the blurb is indeed misleading, so I clarified it:
> 
> >   If you would like to contribute to this project by becoming a
> >   member, use the <a>request for inclusion</a> form.
> 
> AFAICT, the blurb only contained this reference if you were logged in.
> If you did not log in, the blurb was different and contained the text
> I quoted (and nothing more):
> 
>    If you would like to contribute to this project by becoming a member,
>    contact one of the project admins, designated in bold text below. 
> 
> but it seems that this has now been changed.  Thanks,

I insist that the old message contained a link (although the default
CSS colors might not make it very visible). The difference is whether
you are already a member or not a member (which includes not being
logged in ).

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=savane-cleanup.git;a=commitdiff;h=708a863059509851b1fe7fa7070912860a1699f6

Thanks for the feedback.

-- 
Sylvain