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

[Samuel Verschelde]

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.

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