Hi Jeff,

--- Boey Maun Suang <boeyms@macports.org> wrote:

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Ah, that's a little different; I'm afraid that the behaviour that you describe is actually what is supposed to happen at present. In other words... only those who have been granted commit rights can also edit the wiki.

So, is there a way to apply for these rights? Or do we just wait around for that magical day when the policy changes?

You can apply for commit rights as documented at the top of the New Committers Guide page on the wiki [1]; if accepted, you will have rights to both edit the wiki and to commit to the Subversion repository. I know it's a weird place for that bit to be; I only found it because I've learned to look at everything that looks remotely connected to what I want to do, and I do want to fix this (among other things), but I don't feel like I've thought things through enough to be comfortable to do so. As for changing the policy to allow for wiki-editing-only accounts, James Berry has said in another thread that MacPorts would like to see this and several more changes happen, but that we have to wait until we (and possibly those on other projects hosted on MacOSForge) can convince the new MacOSForge admins to change things [2]. Yes, them != us :-( Oh well :-) Kind regards, Maun Suang [1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/NewCommittersGuide [2] http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-May/ 003520.html -- Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) Email: boeyms at macports dot org