Hi, 2009/10/2 Grant Bowman <grant...@ubuntu.com>: > It has been brought to my attention that the written guidelines for > acting as a loco-contact are a bit vague. LoCo wiki pages [1] say you > need to be subscribed to the loco-contacts list and act as a point of > contact however they do not say anything about forwarding select > emails to LoCo mail lists, either unmodified or in a rewritten form > which requires significantly more volunteer time. >
I don't believe there is a policy anywhere about forwarding mails either at a LoCo level or indeed mailing list etiquette level. Individual LoCos are of course free to manage their own mailing lists as they see fit - within the boundaries of the Code of Conduct and the Leadership Code of Conduct. > As I have been reprimanded by our official loco-contact for forwarding > items from this list to our local list I am hoping this can be > clarified and documented for myself and others. > I personally fail to see the issue with forwarding LoCo Contacts mails to LoCo lists. It may be that they need to be edited, translated or otherwise modified, but I don't recall any messages that have content which should absolutely not be passed to LoCo lists. Indeed most of the more recent mails have explicitly requested to be passed far and wide to increase readership and thus awareness of the content. > In my mind, not forwarding relevant information that LoCo Team members > might find useful is more harmful than too much email. Points of > contact should act in both directions. I agree. We're shouting into the wind if nobody is reading loco-contacts mail, or indeed if only a select small percentage of the community is seeing the mail. > been suggested that forwarding emails such as Jono's "Getting key > languages over the 80% translated level" is specifically not an > approved practice and even goes "against local team policy" though I > know that this "policy" is not written anywhere. I think this is the key point. It's difficult to assert a policy if it's not made public what that policy is. I am reminded of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.. http://www.planetclaire.org/quotes/hitchhikers/ "But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months." .. "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'." > I welcome others to > share their best practices in this area and help clarify the written > LoCo documentation. > I'd be interested to know what the specific rationale is for _not_ passing loco-contacts mail to locos. Cheers, Al. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
