On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:23:04PM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote: > There are few policies that we've been implementing from time to time on the > wiki that I would like to see go away. It's my belief that these policies > are hard to maintain, ill-scalable, and unsupportable as-is. I suggest that > we retire the following: > > == Sign up lists == > * Lists where people are encouraged to sign up to do a task or contribute to > a given project. > > There are several projects and pages that suggest that you sign-up to help > do '$variable'. There are several problems with this idea. > > There is no automatic mechanism in place to communicate to users who sign up > on a list. If I wanted to send a message to this list, I would have to wade > through User_talk: pages and communicate with each person individually each > time I want to make an announcement. This is compounded by the fact that > many users don't sign the page or add a link to their user page, and merely > type their names. We can say "sign with ~~~~".
> I feel that a projects should have open task lists or joining a list or some > other mechanism than a sign up list. Alternatively, if someone were to > create a bot or tool that makes this ad-hoc list broadcasting function > (including making sure people are notified via email), I would be ecstatic. Such bots are in existance on the english wikipedia, they are also open source. The issue is that people don't know how easy it is to start a lists.l.o mailing list, we need to make that more obvious. That could fix much of this issue. -FFM _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
