+1 On Bigtop we had some issues with use of a Twitter account purporting to be an official voice of the project expressions opinions that were let's say personal and controversial among the PMC. This was escalated to the board. To avoid future problems we instituted a social media policy (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Social+Media+Guidelines) and shared the account credentials among the PMC. We also used Tweetdeck to authorize the accounts of PMC members to post as the official account. I think this last step is not strictly necessary.
> On Dec 2, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've learned from other projects that project social media accounts > shouldn't be in an individual's hands. > > I've currently got the credentials for @ApacheYetus. I think I forgot > to send the account password to private@ when I set it up and I'll > correct that shortly. > > However, I was wondering if anyone had a preference for any particular > shared-account systems? I think TweetDeck is used by a few projects. > > Presumably we'd give access to everyone on the PMC? Or maybe it should > be more like admin access for jira where we default to giving access > to the PMC but add other contributors if someone is interested in > taking on that particular kind of work for the community? > > So far, I've had the account follow all committers. Is that an > acceptable practice for everyone? > > -Sean
