Many developer experience connected systems use allow lists to grant rights to trusted technical contributors. Generally these allow lists are needed to limit the harm caused by unknown users in systems which do not have the sort of deeply integrated mechanisms for cleaning up vandalism that MediaWiki provides. Even in MediaWiki we often use things like autoconfirmed status as a floor to establish trust and allow some actions.
A growing problem for onboarding and reducing friction experienced by new technical contributors is the number and diversity of such allow lists. In a more ideal world we would have a single source of truth for establishing trust rather than a unique list for each service.
Known allow lists:
- Gerrit's Trusted-Contributors group
- Zuul's email allow list
- Phabricator's Trusted-Contributors project
- Toolforge's members list
- GitLab's approved users (does not seem to have a public representation?)