On Fri, 27 Sept 2024 at 20:17, Brian Proffitt <b...@apache.org> wrote: > > All: > > M&P is working on a social media policy for retiring social media accounts. > From our perspective, there are two scenarios for social media account > retirement: > > "Sub" accounts that a project may have that they no longer want to do the > upkeep for. A recent example of this is @aoobugs, which the OpenOffice > project no longer wishes to maintain. > "Marquee" accounts that represent an entire project. This would be if, say > JUDDI had an X account when it went to the attic. > > The overall goal for all of these is to prevent other users from coming in > and using these accounts, possibly to misrepresent an ASF project, and also > (in the case of the attic'ed projects) have the social media account held in > abeyance in case the project were ever reactivated, at which time the social > media account could be returned to the project's control. > > For the sub accounts, M&P is planning to create a brief set of suggested > guidelines for projects to retire these accounts. > > For marquee accounts, I wanted to ask you all if there are any existing > policies or procedures in place for social media accounts, as we obviously > would not want to reinvent the wheel or disrupt an existing process.
The Attic "is responsible for the oversight of projects which otherwise would not have oversight" It is not designed to handle anything where the project is still active (*), so "Sub" accounts are definitely out of scope. Whilst the "Marquee" case may appear to fall within its remit, I don't think that was considered when it was set up. The Attic does not have any process for dealing with social media. Sebb (*) In the past, some sub-projects were added to the Attic; that was a mistake. > Thanks, > Brian > > Brian Proffitt > VP, Marketing & Publicity > VP, Conferences
