Follow-up Comment #7, sr #106581 (project administration): Hi Assaf - nothing to apologize for; I'm all for directness :). I just wanted to know if there was something better than Savannah's jobs that we could use for GNU "technical help wanted" organization in general.
I completely agree that all the specific jobs you've mentioned are clearly postings that should be updated or removed. Please go ahead with them. However, I guess I resist the notion that a job has to be "recent" as defined purely by date of modification. My job posting for Texinfo is not recent, but it is still valid, and there is nothing to change in the text: https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=1548&job_id=561 Regarding your "effective method" (I hate web interfaces that make quoting such a pain), I agree with #1 and #2, I strongly disagree with #3 and #4, and #5 depends on what we call "outdated". The kinds of posts you have noted are outdated, and fail criteria #2 as well. But not just because a post was done X years ago. (Contacting the poster to see if it's still relevant would always be fine, but not just removal.) Also, I see nothing wrong with generic/permanent "we need developer" posts, like for the Hurd. If and since Savannah jobs are "GNU help wanted", well, having a job posting is our recommended way to get visibility to potential contributors. Not every project would want such; for example, I don't have such one for Texinfo (any more) because, amazingly enough, new people came forward as a result of my previous job postings. Regarding decommissioned packages: Brandon and I are generally the one who implement the "decommissioning", and it has been simply one step too many to deal with deleting old jobs, and besides, people often come forward wanting to clean up the job list (even though almost nothing has ever actually happened :(). Please go ahead and remove any such! Regarding -unavailable-: isn't this at least sometimes because email addresses are not exposed unless you're logged in? I don't see -unavailable- when I look at the findutils job https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=3972&job_id=542 I see the (incorrect :) bug-findutils-requ...@gnu.org, not -unavailable-. You might argue that email addresses in job postings should be exposed to people not logged in, but that's a different conversation. Thanks for taking this one. karl _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?106581> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
