Am Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 01:32:48PM +0100 schrieb Andrew Sayers: > Note: message is To salsa-admins, Cc debian-wiki for discussion. > Please ensure replies are sent to both addresses. > > The current Debian Wiki uses its own account system, but we're planning > to switch to MediaWiki in the coming months. The plan is to use Salsa > for authentication in the new wiki, which could cause a spike in sign-ups. > The people most likely to sign up will be wiki users who noticed something > that broke during the migration, who will be keen to fix it quickly. > > Wiki users can reasonably be assumed to be humans, so can we give them > an easy way to get a Salsa account? The example below suggests e-mailing > them each a unique code to get an account without manual review, > but any similar process would be fine. > > To be clear, we're still in the early planning stages, so the spike won't > happen any time soon. But also there's no downside in starting to e-mail > users now - the worst case scenario is that they get a redundant account. To be honest, I don't think that this is a good idea to move such an amount of users without prior consent. Given the age of the platform there are probably a lot of: - old and inactive users - spammy users - users already on salsa, but with a different username / email Adding those users will circumvent all antispam method and will probably wake up a lot of inactive users (please delete my account!) and will led to a lot of noise and/or supporttickets. So from my side this is a clear no for just importing those users. Alex
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