Fwd: Proposal: Mailing List owner policy

[Johnny Jazeix]

Hi Aiswarya,

I've asked sysadmins to know if I have to open a ticket or if I can do it
myself. I'm waiting on their reply.

Thank you!

Johnny

Le jeu. 23 juil. 2020 à 14:47, Aiśwarya KK <aiswaryakk29 at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I can help to moderate the GCompris list. Please let me know how to
> proceed.
>
> Thanks!
> Aish
> Le 23/07/2020 à 08:38, Johnny Jazeix a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> for now, I think I'm the only moderator on the list.
> Usually, I accept (or reject) the messages in 48 hours max, but it would
> be better if someone else can help too.
>
> There are not a lot of messages to moderate:
> 1) Spam happens once or twice a month globally (some Spanish bank...)
> 2) Rarefully, a person is not within the list and we need to validate the
> mail.
> 3) Some attachements are sent, in this case, I ask the person to send an
> external link containing the document.
>
> Johnny
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> De : Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
> Date: jeu. 23 juil. 2020 à 00:31
> Subject: Proposal: Mailing List owner policy
> To: <kde-community at kde.org>
>
>
> Dear Community,
>
> One important part of mailing lists being healthy is owners/moderators[1].
>
> 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.
>
> So to keep our mailing lists healthy we need to be sure to have healthy
> list owners.
>
> In plural, more than one, because from time to time, we go on vacation and
> the list duties still need taking care of.
>
> For that I'd like to enact this policy:
>
>     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]
>
> One keyword in that sentence is "active".
>
> Mailing list ownership/moderation un-activity is hard to detect.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> For that I'd like to enact this policy sub-point:
>
>     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.
>
> 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.
>
> Does that sound something like we could agree on?
>
> 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.
>
> Things I'm missing?
>
> Improvement suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
> [1] yes, i know they are not the same, but since one is a subset of the
> other, let's pretend they are.
>
>
>
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