Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Is there any reason beyond "that's the way it's always been" to create
> separate sub-aliases to be used as membership
> rosters/member-class-designators
> instead of just keeping the roster on a web page?
It would be much much better if there were a supported structured way to
keep such a set of lists; if it existed, we would simply have the email
system use it in the course of sending email, and the web pages could
automatically include the list on the leaders page.
I am making this proposal because such a structured mechanism does not
exist and parsing an html page is not a viable option. I would be happy
if the result of this discussion was that the OS.o web app was extended
to provide such a mechanism.
We could redefine the ARC community to be the Review Body itself,
instead of a community that is focused on the care and feeding of the
ARC process. This would let us try and correlate the community roles
with the ARC ones:
Community Leader = ARC web support
Core Community Member = ARC member
Community Member = ARC Intern
?? = ARC Licensee
Observer = ARC Interest
Community Announcements = ARC Agenda Interest
?? = ARC Agenda Request Mechanism
This begs the questions of if/when the opensolaris web/email software
will support these roles, and if/when the web observer feature will ever
be integrated into the email system.
> If it's not ever going to get mail, why have it be a mailing list?
These roster lists will get email, just not directly from users. If
they _were_ used directly, we would be splitting the community into
silos, something we don't really want to do. Members would see one
email stream, interns another, and interested observers a third. No thanks!
The intent is to have one set of public email aliases that everyone uses:
opensolaris-arc@ General case discussions
opensolaris-arc-discuss@ Non-case focused discussions
opensolaris-arc-record@ Archival without discussion
These three could be combined - they are
in the proposal because that was "how we
always did it".
opensolaris-arc-agenda-request@
(I still need to add a few more workflow support aliases (not
this project...) like opensolaris-arc-onepager-submission@ and
opensolaris-arc-fasttrack-submission@)
-John
