Membership status
Key point: The status of a user’s membership in a group or project.

Administrators can view or edit a user’s membership status in a group or project.

In the user interface, their status is shown as of one of the following:

Current

Active members who can access the group. Their permissions within the group are determined by their assigned role.

Pending

Users who cannot yet access the group until certain conditions are met:

  • They were invited to the group, and they need to confirm that they want to join the group.
  • They requested to join and need to confirm their interest.
  • They requested to join a moderated group and await moderator approval.

Former

Users who were removed from the group with the Remove option and no longer have access. Their membership information is retained for record-keeping purposes and to make it easier to rejoin if needed.

Group managers can permanently remove these members with the Delete option, which deletes all their membership information.

The members page only lists the current members.

The manage members page lets managers list pending and former members.

For developers

The status value in the system is one of the following:

  • normal – a member of the group.
  • invited – invited to join the group.
  • self-invited – invited themselves to join the group.
  • moderated – waiting for moderator to accept them to the group.
  • disabled – removed from the group.
  • unknown – there is a problem with the membership.