On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> Please not, there are not technical volunteers for fulfilling that >> task. Terry E, who left the project, has mentioned this might be very >> difficult or even impossible. This is a wish, but there is need of >> somebody who does it. >> > > But that is what the proposal on the wiki says. The wiki has a > "technical changes" section in the proposal that states: > > "A new public board "site governance" is established to discuss forum > related tasks. The messages are sent automatically to a readonly > mailinglist name "forum-sitegovernance@" > > A new private board "private xxx" is established to discuss sensitive > tasks, like for example user behavior. The messages are sent > automatically to a privately archived mailing list (allowing Apache > Members and Apache OpenOffice PPMC members to view) with a specific > tag" > > Is this an error? Should that section of the proposal be removed? > > If it is removed, then what are we doing about audit trails, and such? > Does phpBB give us everything we need without having it echoed to a > private list? I'm fine with that. But I think it is important that > the proposal cover how the forums will satisfy that important > requirement.
Many BB systems allow updates to threads to be sent to a participant's email address. Perhaps a pseudouser can be set up whose email address is a private ASF list, so that forum posts are archived there...? Don
