On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 10:31:17PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > I believe every new DD or DM should be auto subscribed to -devel, > -project and -devel-announce (and -private for DDs), best with the > usual "someone subscribed you for this, please confirm" confirmation > mail, not sure how to make this reality (as in: how to change DAM > procedures), probably by first achieving consenus here?! And then? > > (This mail is also to move a $conversation from -private to here.) > > Those 3-4 lists should be read by anyone (as in DD/DM) anyway. This > way, we'd gently push new contributors to lists we'd expect them to > read anyway...
I think debian-announce and debian-devel-announce should be required reading to DDs and DMs[0], but I don't think debian-devel and debian-project (or debian-vote) should be. These are, at times, very high volume lists, and I'd rather our useful contributors[1] spent their time doing stuff rather than reading a lot of e-mail. I don't have an opinion on whether having DAM send a mail to $list-subscr...@lists.debian.org (for some set of lists) instead of just one mail with a pointer to the lists.debian.org subscription page, except for this: I would expect someone who's just been through the process to become a DM or a DD to already be subscribed to those lists, if they're interested. They can't be subscribed to debian-private, but that's a list I don't think should exist at all. [0] In whatever way they want. Direct subscription, gmane, web archives, or something else, it's all fine. [1] Not me. I just whinge, these days. -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140205214312.GZ4845@holywood