* David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-05 21:10]: > * After a period of time to allow people to opt-in, the default > policy for authors without a stated preference will be > changed to "no mail". > > From that point on, CPAN Testers will be a purely opt-in > service. Hopefully, the design of the notification system > will be such that people who want to innovate new ways of > filtering notifications to particular distributions or > platforms of interest can contribute to the code base to do > so.
I would hope that this still leaves room for Eric Wilhelm’s proposed “welcome basket” mail getting sent at least once to new authors, so they have a chance to learn about the things that the CPAN Testers can do for them, should they so desire. In fact, if that is in the cards, then maybe the default policy change should simply switch authors without a stated preference to “has never received a welcome message” so that they get a chance to hear about the new developments that are transpiring and the new options they have, rather than having CPAN Testers quietly go radio silent for them. Not everyone reads perl-qa. Also, I would stipulate that if an author has not specifically stated their preference, maybe mail them another welcome basket in a year or two. No other mail, of course – they still have to opt in if they want FAIL/PASS mail. But reiterating the welcome basket every once in a very long time (in case it slipped through a crack in their TODO list, got purged during an inbox bankruptcy start-over, or whatever) seems like a gentle enough reminder that it would not annoy. The goal, again, is to reach people at the outskirts of the community who do not read 30 Perl mailing lists and all of the use.perl journals (yes, that’s me). Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
