[Mageia-dev] proposal regarding (packager) mentoring program coordinator

Sat Jul 2 01:11:29 CEST 2011

Le samedi 2 juillet 2011 01:07:00, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le vendredi 1 juillet 2011 22:49:29, andre999 a écrit :
+> > nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> > > On Fri, 01 Jul 2011, andre999 wrote:
+> > >>>> We would like to have an email address for the team, which would
+> > >>>> direct messages to all team members.
+> > >>>> It could be mentoring at mageia.org or similar (suggested by Daniel).
+> > >>> 
+> > >>> We keep @mageia.org for real persons. The usual way to have a group
+> > >>> mail is something along foo at group.mageia.org, and this requires a
+> > >>> ldap group. ( which in turn requires 1) identity account 2) a list
+> > >>> of person, and someone to manage the group )
+> > >> 
+> > >> Would something like coord at pmentoring.mageia.org be Ok ?
+> > > 
+> > > No, foo at group.mageia.org with foo replaced by the group name.
+> > > 
+> > >> Presumably I would manage the group, which would include at least
+> > >> magnus + Daniel. So who should I talk to about setting it up ?
+> > >> Would I be able to add new persons myself, or would I have to request
+> > >> it ?
+> > > 
+> > > What would be the use of this group and alias ?
+> > > Shouldn't most discussions be public, so on a mailing list ?
+> > 
+> > This would be for potential packager apprentices or others to easily
+> > contact all members the mentoring coordinator team.
+> > So one of us can respond quickly, mostly to update our packages_mentoring
+> > wiki page.  (Which will be ready in the next few days.)
+> > We could also use it to discuss among ourselves, which we now do by
+> > private email. So it wouldn't be of general interest.  We wouldn't want
+> > those outside our group responding to messages received, like in a
+> > public mailing list.
+> > (The group might include a few outside our team.)
+> > (It could include mentors, but they will see useful info on our wiki
+> > page.) A restricted-access mailing list should work.
+> 
+> I don't think there's a need for restricted access, and it would be
+> opposite to the way we try to do everything in the open.
+> 
+> What you need is
+> 1) a way to be contacted directly by those who need (apprentices)
+> 2) a way to discuss within members of the team, but maybe other people too
+> if some want to join the discussion
+> 
+> For 1), I think your @mageia.org address once you will get one is
+> sufficient. It's only one means of communication among others (MLs,
+> forums, wiki), so I don't think a group is necessarily needed for that.
+> You can still forward requests you can't handle yourself.
+
+That being said, I have nothing against the use of a group for that, but only 
+as a contact e-mail, not for discussion, or only for sensitive discussion 
+about specific persons.
+
+> 
+> For 2), I don't know what is better :
+> - use an existing mailing list
+> - create a new one
+> 
+> I think you must try to use direct e-mail among you only when there's a
+> good reason to avoid public discussion. Saying that it's not of general
+> interest is not a good enough reason, I think. Do you have other reasons
+> for wanting a private mailing list ?
+> 
+> Best regards
+> 
+> Samuel Verschelde
+