On 22/02/18 20:17, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I like the idea of using a list (either this one or another dedicated >> list, e.g. debian-outreach-applications) to handle the first contact >> from each applicant so we can welcome them even if the mentor isn't >> always available. >> >> In my own listings, I added a tag "+mentor" to my email address so I am >> less likely to miss any applicant. However, I was also thinking that >> such mechanisms could be used on the list so that people can distinguish >> which emails are about which projects. >> >> E.g. if the URL in the wiki is: >> >> mailto:[email protected]?subject=GSoC2018%20Click-to-Dial >> >> then the emails will all have subject "GSoC2018 Click-to-Dial". >> >> We can go further: each mentor could announce their project with an >> email to the list and then embed their message-ID in the mailto URI on >> the wiki. Then all the applicants to that mentor would be threaded, >> even if they continued the discussion off-list. Other users of the list >> could more easily follow or ignore threads as they please. >> >> Does anybody have a strong objection to this? > Fix your links please and don't tell people to create alioth users. Alioth is > dead and such users will stop working on first may. >
I'll fix it, but I'm sure there are other pages linking to it. When it stops, will those URLs be redirected? Regards, Daniel
