I just happen to have a little time to join the discussion :) On Vi, 09 sep 11, 14:41:35, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:24:50AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > JFYI (forwarded with permission). > > > > While we are at it, and given that the consultants@d.o address is meant > > to manipulate public information anyhow, I wonder if we cannot simply > > turn that address into a "please submit a bug report against > > www.debian.org". That would give visibility to pending requests, as well > > as out the consultants team, given that anyone with access to webwml > > will be able to work on the list. > > > > Just my 0.02€, > > Cheers. > > > > Hi Stefano, > thank you for the notice. > I've also noted a huge queue in the consultant list, because mails to > consultant@d.o are also forwarded to webmaster@d.o, and I was wondering > what to do about it. > > madamezou@wolkenstein:/org/www.debian.org/mail$ cat .mailfilter | grep > 'CONSULTANTS' > CONSULTANTS="debian-archive-debian-consulta...@master.debian.org > joey-consulta...@master.debian.org andreimpope...@gmail.com > giuse...@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org" > > These are the people now in charge for keep up-to-date the consultant > list or at least people who receive the mails directed to consultants@d.o > (and for this reason I've added them in CC, even if I think they read > debian-www). > > In addition, on [1], is also listed Noèl Köthe. > So Andrei, Giuseppe, Joey, Noél: do you have still time for this task? If > not, any volunteer?
Right at the moment I'm trying to take a 2 weeks vacation and afterwards I'll be quite busy with a big project at work. However, the weekly volume of work is not very high for me to completely step down. However, what has kept me from staying up-to-date with requests is not so much the lack of time, but lack of motivation for doing something that can be 95% automated. Most of the work done right now consists of: 1. Check if the addition request is reasonable (i.e. the URL mentions "Debian" somewhere) 1a. ask for directions if not 2. copy-paste/re-write as needed the data into the webwml cvs 3. reply to requester with confirmation or rejection (with reason of course) My suggestion would be to create a web form to take care of the above and just send maintainers a diff of the commit. In case the submitters are not happy with the automated addition/rejection they could contact consultants@d.o > Remember that is not requested to be a DD/DM to do this: any volunteer > and contributor is welcome. > > WRT Stefano's proposal (redirect request for additions in the BTS), IMHO it > could be a regression > of the current workflow: the idea is to delegate and extend tasks > regarding the website, not to concentrate them in few hands. Any solution involving the BTS and/or public mailing list should add proper disclaimers. I think this was the main concern about keeping the consultants@d.o alias instead of just redirecting it to debian-www or so. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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