https://git.devuan.org/help/permissions/permissions according to this page, a guest should be able to open an issue on a project except for private projects.

Can you better explain where are you or anyone else is trying to open issues without success in doing that?

Reassigned to @nextime

There are two distinct problems:

1. https://git.devuan.org/groups/packages-base/issues exists, but there's no way to add an issue there, so people cannot claim packages. Note that it belongs to a group and not a project within that group (which is not covered by the permissions help).
2. https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/package-maintenance-state belongs to thedevuan-projectproject: only developers in (any) project can edit the wiki. Therefore people should first become developer, and then be able to claim a package using this method.

1. no one can add issues on https://git.devuan.org/groups/packages-base/issues , even an admin can't do that. It's only a report page of all issues opened in the packages-base group. Who want to open an issue on a package in the packages-base group to adopt it, needs to do that in the issue tracker specific to the package, like, for example, https://git.devuan.org/packages-base/xfce4-session/issues and then the issue will be visible also on https://git.devuan.org/groups/packages-base/issue

2.sadly there is no way to open up to non-developers to write on the wiki without open up whole gitlab to guests, the only solution is to add members to the project as developers one by one

Can we settle on opening an issue here so that interested people can request developer access to thepackages-basegroup?

I'd rather create a new project for that:devuan-maintainerswhere issues can be open by members that are not developers yet, to apply for access onpackages-base. Thanks for thinkering about this!

Status changed to closed

Now @jaromil , you're free to thinker :)

Volunteers for package adoption can head to the devuan-maintainers project.