On 21/11/2011 Rob Weir wrote:
Please note: I don't want to discuss here the merits of shutting down or not shutting down such a forwarding service. That discussion was made moot by an ASF Board decision against hosting such a general-access email forwarding service like the legacy OOo had.
OK, I've read it and I still believe it was probably a bad choice, but we will have to respect it.
We didn't create this problem, but we're the best ones to help reduce the pain of this shutdown.
Sure. And I would actually turn your proposal in something less negative; say, I would add that people who believe that an e-mail address is important for community building can become Apache OpenOffice committers by meritocracy and obtain an @apache.org e-mail address (or forwarder, or whatever it is).
4) Work with Infra@ on a custom bounce notification that would be sent in response to all openoffice.org emails. It would link to the wiki page from step #3. Coordinate this so it is ready on or before the forwarder shutdown date.
Here it will be important to avoid that someone receives a deluge of notifications by some automated system that is still in place in the complex OpenOffice.org infrastructure. So this has to be handled carefully, but I'm in favor of an automated response.
Regards, Andrea.
