<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>for now, I think I'm the only moderator on the list.</div><div>Usually, I accept (or reject) the messages in 48 hours max, but it would be better if someone else can help too.</div><div><br></div><div>There are not a lot of messages to moderate:</div><div>1) Spam happens once or twice a month globally (some Spanish bank...)</div><div>2) Rarefully, a person is not within the list and we need to validate the mail.</div><div>3) Some attachements are sent, in this case, I ask the person to send an external link containing the document.</div><div><br></div><div>Johnny</div><div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>De : <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Albert Astals Cid</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:aacid@kde.org">aacid@kde.org</a>></span><br>Date: jeu. 23 juil. 2020 à 00:31<br>Subject: Proposal: Mailing List owner policy<br>To: <<a href="mailto:kde-community@kde.org">kde-community@kde.org</a>><br></div><br><br>Dear Community,<br>
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One important part of mailing lists being healthy is owners/moderators[1].<br>
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They moderate the lists, they help users that want to subscribe/unsubscribe but don't know how to, they enact emergency moderation in the very very seldom case that it is needed, etc.<br>
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So to keep our mailing lists healthy we need to be sure to have healthy list owners.<br>
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In plural, more than one, because from time to time, we go on vacation and the list duties still need taking care of.<br>
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For that I'd like to enact this policy:<br>
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Mailing lists should have at least 2 active owners, ideally 3 [Obviously exceptions apply, like if we just started a mailing list to coordinate translators for a language that has no translation in KDE yet, we'd probably have no way to get 2 list owners]<br>
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One keyword in that sentence is "active".<br>
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Mailing list ownership/moderation un-activity is hard to detect.<br>
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One way to potentially detect it, is by those summaries that sysadmin sends periodically for lists with lots of mails to moderate, but that doesn't cover all the cases.<br>
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For example, it's possible that a mailing list has 2 owners and only one of them is inactive, since the other one is keeping the list in working condition we don't see it as a problem, but if that person goes on holiday, then it suddenly is.<br>
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For that I'd like to enact this policy sub-point:<br>
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Mailing list owners will be contacted every year asking if they are still active and if they want to continue being list owner or if they'd prefer we find a substitute.<br>
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If they say "please find a substitute" or fail to answer in a given time frame (I'd say a month is fair), they will be removed as owners and in case the "at least 2 active owners, ideally 3" policy is broken we'll find a new person.<br>
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Does that sound something like we could agree on?<br>
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Then the big question is "who will do this work?" Because it seems quite a bit of work (albeit only once a year). I would suggest the Community Working Group does this, as it's a way to keep our community healthy, but i understand it's quite some work, so i volunteer to do it if the CWG doesn't feel this is a task they want to take on. <br>
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Things I'm missing?<br>
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Improvement suggestions?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Albert<br>
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[1] yes, i know they are not the same, but since one is a subset of the other, let's pretend they are.<br>
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