On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 22/02/18 21:00, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> 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? > > No. > > > The links are fixed, thanks > > Could a subset of the alioth web server logs, with mangled IP addresses, > be published somewhere publicly to see if anybody wants to crowdsource > the effort to create a list of redirects? I don't think this is a good idea.
Alex
