We can also move forward where we agre Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 13, 2012, at 4:58 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> On Dec 12, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> If we're going to have all of these wiki account requests via email, >>> would it makes sense to create a special admin list (or webmaster >>> list) for these and similar requests, and maybe also for general >>> website development topics? >> >> sysadmin requests to a special ML may make sense, but I don't think that the >> website development topics belong in that ML. website topics already overlap >> into marketing and L10n. >> > > I could argue it either way. For example, one reason the discussions > are spread out over marketing and L10n is because currently there is > no clear "center" to website discussions. A new list could become > that center. And a volunteer on the marketing list or L10n list is > more likely to subscribe to a dedicated website list than to join the > dev list, purely due to traffic. > > But you could also argue that although the website has its own > technical discussions at the admin/sysop level, the design and content > is a larger project-wide discussion, often touching on marketing and > L10n as well. > > One way of looking at it might be: Suppose we wanted in 2013 to do a > real clean up of the website, updating the stagnant NL pages, making a > more modern look, applying any new branding, pruning or updating > outdated content, etc. Suppose to do this we had a call for website > volunteers and needed to get them up to speed on the CMS and related > topics. How would we do this? > > In practice I think the challenge would be getting new volunteers to > survive the dev list traffic. Getting volunteers with project-wide > interests to subscribe to "yet another list" is relatively easy. > > Of course, we don't need to decide the larger question now. It would > be enough to have an admin list for admin requests across web, wiki, > bugzilla, blog, forums, etc. > > -Rob > >> Regards, >> Dave >> >>> >>> -Rob >>
