[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #4768: P2/O2: During backend editing impossible to handle from user without role

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#4768: P2/O2: During backend editing impossible to handle from user without role
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 Reporter:  tobifjellner              |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  high                      |  Milestone:
Component:  Make (Get Involved) / P2  |   Keywords:
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 On make.wordpress.org translators and plugin/theme developers may post
 requests to appoint certain users as translation editors.
 Starting around Oct 14, 2019 something suddenly changed.

 Since then, during back-end editing of any post, the field "Author" MUST
 be set to one of the pre-existing users that already have a compatible
 role. If the person who edits the post misses this, the first username in
 the alphabetically sorted list will be set as the author...

 In order words, previously, I could just check that the contents of the
 pending post was OK, perhaps fix a couple of tags, and then publish.

 Now I need to:
 1. Temporarily save the pending post as a draft in my own name
 2. Find out the username of the poster
 3. Invite this user as contributor or author on Polyglots blog
 4. Wait for them to confirm their new role on the site
 4b. Perhaps remind them a couple of times...
 5. Pick up the pending post, change the author field to the relevant user
 6. Publish

 This is MUCH less convenient than before... :(

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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4768>
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