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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 October 2011 16:30, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2011-10-13 11:17, Martin Pool wrote:
>
>> I wish there was a 'reason' field on team membership requests because
>> a large fraction of them seem to be mysterious, from people with no
>> previous involvement or contact with the project, who perhaps are
>> confused about why they're clicking it.
>
> My impression has been that very often, people just assume that they need to
> join up somewhere first in order to get involved in any way.
>
> I've also heard it said that many people just to want to be seen as being
> members of projects, even if they don't intend to contribute. Maybe that's
> true, maybe it's too harsh; I do wonder if perhaps some people see this as a
> "Like" button.
>
> Another hypothesis: could some of these people be hoping there's more about
> the project that they won't see until they join up?  Especially without wiki
> hosting, people may be under the impression that they're only getting a
> limited view.

I think any of those are possible.  We could do some kind of user
study to find out.  Or, we could add a freeform field and see what
people type in it, which would also help the team owners decide if
they ought to let them in.  Or, we could deemphasize requests to join
a team.

I wonder how many requests are accepted?