Bug#677277: lists.debian.org: new list: sponsorship-requests@lists.debian.org
Package: lists.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
upon rough consensus and after discussing with formorer [1] I'd like to to request
a new list dedicated to sponsorship requests. The list would be used to manage
sponsorship-requests bug traffic as a pseudo-package owner [2].
Name
At your choice, sponsorship-requests@l.d.o or
debian-sponsorship-requests@l.d.o. I guess, I'd prefer the former.
Rationale
The rationale is denoted in the mailing list discussion referenced under [1].
The basic idea is to restrict automated bot traffic to the debian-mentors
mailing list to reduce the signal/noise ratio.
In the end, sponsorship-requests should be used as a no-discussion (beyond
actual bug discussions) web-archive mailing list. That is, we would like to
tell apart mentoring questions ("help me with packaging problem") from bug
control traffic (see #658498) and bug notifications. For the sake of
completeness you, as a listmaster, demand that every traffic sent to a list
actually ends up there. Yet, debian-mentors would be subscribed via PTS for
bug traffic _only_.
Therefore, to make a long story short:
* debian-mentors: leave as is, subscribe to bug reports for the the
sponsorship-requests pseudo-package.
* sponsorship-requests: send _all_ sponsorship-requests bug traffic there
(including control messages) and configure that list as a package owner
* "sponsorship-requests" pseudo-package: Change packge owner to
sponsorship-requests@l.d.o. Don, do you want me to file a separate bug for
that, assuming you create the requested list?
Long description
Track upload requests for packages about to be sponsored into Debian archives
(feel free to change/improve with a native speaker hat on)
Category
Developers
Subscription Policy
open
Post Policy
open
(or, at your choice moderated, as we expect no posters but the BTS, and humans
should be redirected to debian-mentors instead)
Web Archive
yes
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/05/msg00459.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=sponsorship-requests
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