Deny joining of teams

[Guilherme Salgado]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:57:35AM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I just had a brief conversation with Steve about people joining teams
> who don't have an email address set. The conversation came up, when I
> tried to mail https://launchpad.net/people/arun-pg who tried to join
> https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-core-dev/+members
> 

Just to make it clear, if somebody proposed himself as a member of a team,
then that person has an email address set, although he may have chosen
not to display it.  I think this is the case here.

> My idea was to deny users without a mail address joining teams. Steve's
> idea was to do either that, or to add to launchpad a way to send people
> a message even when they don't show their email address.
> 
> The messaging feature sounds tempting, but it looks like it would take
> more time than the other solution. Simple blocking could act as an
> interim solution.
> 

I think it would be nice to provide a way for users to send messages to
other users through Launchpad and we'll probably implement it at some
point, but it may take some time, indeed.

> Steve asked me to start the discussion on this mailing list, so I'm
> happy to hear better suggestions.

Another possibility would be to show the preferred email of the proposed
member on the /people/<team-name>/+member/<proposed-member-name> page.
Although it may not be nice from us to show the user's email address when
he asked us not to do so, I think it's somewhat reasonable, since that
user proposed himself as a member of the team.  We could even warn the
user that proposing himself as a member of a team will give the admins
of the team the right to see his email addresses, in case he have chosen
not to show them.  How does it sound?

Cheers,

-- 
Guilherme Luis R. Salgado