Fwd: RFA: www.debian.org/users
Laura Arjona Reina writes:
> Dear all
> As part of the recent web team sprint [1] (report will come in the
> following days hopefully), we have reviewed several areas of the website
> that were in need of maintenance.
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianWebTeam
>
> For the /english/users section [2], we need maintainer(s) to process new
> requests, and remove or update old entries.
>
> [2] https://www.debian.org/users
>
> This is a call for help, or request for "adoption": would anybody
> volunteer to this task?
>
> Maintaining the /users section (or part of it) can be a nice entry point
> for somebody to get involved in the Debian web team.
>
> The /users section is quite big, so you can consider focusing on a
> subsection (com, edu, gov, org), or for example take care about all the
> entries related to your country (across the different subsections).
>
> Technically speaking, it's an easy job, but the "curation" task that a
> human provides is very appreciated by our users. On the contrary, an
> outdated or unmaintained list of Debian users looses its value very quickly.
>
> If somebody is interested in adoption, they won't be alone (at least at
> the beginning). I'm available to work together with them until they find
> a suitable workflow and they feel comfortable doing the task themselves.
> We have tried several different workflows in the past and have a mail
> template to use when asking for updates.
>
> If nobody steps ahead at the end of the year, we'll remove the section
> (English and translations) or at least the entries older than 2-3 years
> from www.debian.org.
>
> If you are interested, reply to this message in the public mailing list
> (debian-www@lists.debian.org) or privately to me, and I'll point to
> detailed steps to start. You can also join #debian-www IRC channel (in
> irc.debian.org).
>
> Kind regards,
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