2015.01.24 00:26, Louis Suárez-Potts rašė:
I'm simply not wanting any page created with the best of intentions to be abandoned, lost, if the originator of it loses interest or otherwise departs the project. That's my point.
I agree. That's why the page has to be simple in form and maybe limited to committers (?) to keep numbers under check and make sure there is long-term experience (i.e. measured in years, not weeks or months) behind the names.
I'm curious. Do you think it would be worthwhile to bing back a version of the old native-language sub-projects? These were dedicated areas in the user's native language whose focus & point was to reach out to the local (physical) and linguistic community (could be anywhere) and give social depth to the user of and contributor to OpenOffice. Kind of like linux user groups, only sometimes less geeky. We deprecated these when we joined Apache for several reasons, but one was that there were too many and they didn't really seem to be leading to more engagement and participation. But perhaps times have changed?
That does sound like a hard thing to maintain. A simple contact list in a prominent place of the subsite would be enough for a start.
Previous incarnations of native-language sites listed contributors; there was no reason not to, but also no compulsion to do so, unless the contributor insisted upon it, so each did so as resources afforded.
I agree. Another reason why the page should be optional is that some native-lang projects are literally one-person endeavors. That person may not want to make public his contacts. If the page were mandatory it would have to be empty.
As to putting it on the dev@ list, the reason I suggested that was to include more, not fewer people.
That can definitely be done, maybe after we've spent a little more time munching on and then testing the idea?
To build a 'social bridge' to the world might generate a much more higher traffic on our mailboxes, but who knows... I think it's worth a try.
From the way information is presented on the page it should be clear it is not meant as a substitute for help. As for potential spamming, it is a real issue that is nonetheless controllable.
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