Admin Access

[jos...@main.nc.us]

SECOND NOTICE

Soon I may be away for an indefinite period.

There are no other active members with admin access here or on GitHub.

If no one steps up to share access, this project may become locked.

Please consider requesting admin access to keep the project alive.

Joe

[Gil Brand]

Joe,

I'm not a coder, but might be able to help. I love Autokey.

What is involved?

Gil Brand

214-282-2581

p.s., I used Autokey to type my name and phone number!

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[jos...@main.nc.us]

Thanks for responding!

I don't recall seeing you posting here before.

I have a long background in programming, but I don't know much Python and
am not an AutoKey developer. I'm just a very long term user who stepped in
when no one else was managing the project.

There are two "levels".

The essential level is holding the credentials (passwords...) so you can
grant access to someone else who knows more so they can do things. This
involves decisions about who you can trust and how much access to give
them. (everyone/contributor/admin)

There are a few different things and I'd have to detail them.

It also involves getting notices of non-members trying to post on our
Google Groups forum and approving their posts and membership requests.
This is mainly just for blocking spam. We haven't had to ban anyone yet in
well over a decade.
These requests occur randomly, one or two a month at most.

So far we have never encountered a bad actor who requested access. We were
getting some spam before I turned on the approval process.

Ideally, whoever does this should have a basic familiarity with our wiki
so they can point users to the resources there, but that's not essential.

The other level is actually doing technical stuff like reviewing PRs,
merging them, and making new releases... That's less essential because
there's no need for it until active members who understand such things
make contributions. Hopefully, one or more of them will be motivated
enough to ask for access so they can do these things themselves. As long
as someone can grant them access, then we're good.

Again, the main thing is figuring out who to trust with access. Git/GitHub
is easy to screw up with bad practices. And the whole project could be
deleted or infected with something.

Generally, we're too small/specialized a project for bad actors to bother
with, but we do have some issues with how to use Git/GitHub optimally
which have caused some sync problems between the main (release) branch and
our development branch that seem hard to fix.

Joe

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[i neuw (ineuw)]

Hi Joe,

I hope you are well, and my best wishes for your future endeavors.

ineuw

[Kreezxil]

I'll take shared Admin access. I certainly don't want to see it die and I do have some python experience, I get more of it as time goes on. I'm curious about what you mean by indefinite and i'm thinking the worst possible thing as to what you mean by that. I'm glad you're thinking about the community's and this project's future as a result of it.

Interestingly, had you posted your first notice on the Discord I created for the community, I would've stepped up sooner.

[Derek]

I am interested in this too.  I joined this group in 2009, when Chris Dekter was maintaining it, and I have been using AutoKey continuously all this time.  I have been working in Python all this time too, so I could help.