Proposal: Mailing List owner policy

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:42 PM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El dimecres, 9 de setembre de 2020, a les 11:00:21 CEST, Ben Cooksley va
> escriure:
> > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 7:43 AM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
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> > > El dimarts, 25 d’agost de 2020, a les 23:28:28 CEST, Albert Astals Cid
> va
> > > escriure:
> > > > So it seems there was some agreement that is something that could
> > > improve but we didn't 100% agree on what to do. I've scheduled an
> Akademy
> > > BoF, hopefully we can reach to a conclusion there.
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> https://community.kde.org/Akademy/2020/Tuesday#Room_02_-_8th_September
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> > > Summary of the discussion at https://share.kde.org/s/PeFRH82FmFgDrep
> > >
> > > I'll start contacting people about doing work for several points
> probably
> > > tomorrow :)
> > >
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> > Thanks for the detailed summary from the BoF Albert, it's appreciated.
> >
> > Responding to some of those points with my Sysadmin hat on:
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> > > Enable archives on all the mailing lists that don't have it enabled
> >
> > We should probably look at backfilling the archives for those lists as
> > well, given some of them are the older lists that document much of the
> > history of the KDE project (and should therefore be as best preserved as
> > possible)
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> Yes we should try backfilling, but what we discussed and agreed is that
> this should not be a blocker.
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> The more time we go without archives, the more those archives will be
> incomplete.
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> So if we can't back fill the archives in X time, we just need to accept
> our loses and enable the archives.
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We can always backfill after enabling archiving, although it is easier if
we have them to start with.
(That is in effect what I did recently with the merger of
kde-distro-packagers into distributions)


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> >
> > > Where did the archives of the recently disabled/archive mailing lists
> go?
> > Still publicly available?
> >
> > These archives should all still be accessible at
> > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/$listname/
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> Good :)
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> > > Ask sysadmins if we can have a text file in invent...
> >
> > Would it help if we created a team at https://invent.kde.org/teams/ for
> > this, to allow you to make use of the snippets/wiki functionality of
> Gitlab?
>
> This needs more refining, i guess let's create the list of owners first
> and once we have that discuss it there?
>

Sure thing.


>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>

Cheers,
Ben


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> > > > Cheers,
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> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >   Albert
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