Hi all, Il giorno sab, 12/11/2011 alle 16.40 -0400, David Prévot ha scritto: [...] > Monitoring for a few weeks Giussepe's work on the consultants stuff > (kudos for your work Giussepe!) makes me think that the proposed > workflow [1] makes sense. > > 1: <4e716120.7070...@debian.org>
I like this process, and I like both ideas of having a page for collecting registration and for automate periodic checks. The only problem I see about this process (and about any process) is that BTS is not usable for storing all data; like: where do we store dates about email sent? where do we store MTA bounce error messages? where do we store details about all email address contacted for a specific user/consultants. And what about authorisations for people that could approve requests? And the same apply to specific actions about consultants: where do we store information about automatic checks on the web site? And what about temporary failures? I think BTS could be used for starting the process of adding new entries or deleting them, but I think that we need a better database. I started to add comments about last contact dates in the consultant.data file but this it absolutely not the right place. I never investigated the possibility to use the ultimate Debian database[1], but I think this could be the way to go. Another option could be to use an LDAP (ultimately we are talking about contacts, aren't we?) Beside this I found problems different than the one hypothesized by you. As an example I had to send emails using different smarthosts because many many many consultants email servers adopt different kind of anti spam techniques (this is quite strange since these email addresses are supposed to collect request for jobs, so I would have expected to find less barriers). Bye, Giuseppe [1] http://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1321303412.4588.16.camel@scarafaggio
