Re: Inclusion in the Debian consultant list
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 08 nov 12, 00:20:20, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> >
> > A few days ago I spoke with Zack about this problem. He suggested again
> > to change the request procedure: instead of sending an email to a
> > private address, open a bug report. This would let requester at least
> > know that their request has been delivered. Moreover, anyone could fix
> > any of these bugs, adding the request, or writing notes on the bug
> > report.
>
> I'm still convinced that a mailing list manager with a custom
> subscription form and some hooks would be more suitable for the job:
>
> - the partner[1] fills the subscription form with his data
> - the frontend then subscribes the partner to the corresponding mailing
> list and creates the webwml snippet (maybe one file per partner for
> easy addition/deletion?)
> - if necessary the mailing list can be configured to require
> subscription approval by a "moderator" and/or e-mail verification with
> a custom message
> - periodic pings are then just messages sent to the list ;)
> - deleting a partner is then a matter of unsubscribing from the list
> - changes are rare (and minor) enough to be handled directly in CVS
Better to just file a bug in the BTS and do all of this there with a
form. It can even use the current www.debian.org pseudopackage with an
appropriate usertag so it gets filtered out.
For example:
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
From: yourname
Subject: Please add consultant <your name>
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
User: www.debian.org
Usertags: consultants
# Consultant: COUNTRYTLD
# email checked on YYYY-MM-DD
<p>
<name Your Name>
<company Your Company>
<address Your address <country-name COUNTRYTLD>>
<phone +1 PhoneNumber>
<fax +1 PhoneNumber>
<email email@example.com scramble="no">
<rates Your rates.>
<URL "http://www.example.com";>
</p>
will pretty much do it, and should make it pretty dang easy to add new
consultants.
Don Armstrong
--
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
something.
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http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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