[ogb-discuss] Community Guidance Plan Proposal

[Stephen Lau]

Hi Christopher,
	Notes inline...

> ==
> 1.3 Proposed Actions
> 	1- Reposition the opensolaris-discuss list (only) into alphabetical
> order on the discussion listing. Optionally, opensolaris-help could be
> moved into the top spot. Doing this/these will allow the readers first
> experience be of a educational, and less pressured approach.
> Opensolaris-announce and -help are really the most important areas of
> information 'for a new participant.'

opensolaris-announce really isn't the best area of information for a new
participant.  -help is useful though.  

Really a new participant should be pointed to pages other than mailing
lists for an introduction to the project.

> 	2- Alter the mailing-list engine to allow the restriction of
> opensolaris-discuss from being carbon copied with any other list in the
> address area. Doing this will help restrict the amount of overflow into
> other communities if the leaders deem necessary.

I believe Mailman supports rejecting mail sent to to many addresses -
but there is no built-in way to check whether those are user addresses
or other os.o mailing lists; and the tonic team does not have the
resources to make this kind of modification.

> 	3- Only after the creation of the project or community, the
> Opensolaris-announce list should be used to gather communication,
> volunteers, and activity into the sponsoring community(if project) or
> newly created community.
> All planning should take place within the sponsoring community. If the
> proposal is in developing stages, a simple statement can be expressed to
> gain help from 'relevant' communities.
> *Example* We are proposing a project within the Desktop Community to
> bring the BSoD to OpenSolaris, if you wish to show your support, please
> visit us our proposal within the Desktop Community. */Example*

The above was pretty much settled as part of OGB/2007/001, with the
exception of having a specific project-announce list setup for these
sorts of announcements, rather than overloading opensolaris-announce.

> I have built the above proposal out of the discussion prior to this.
> Please feel free to comment and make suggestions. I would really like to
> see the community be a little easier to navigate for new-comers, and
> make things a bit more fluid for existing residents.

Thanks for your input...

cheers,
steve
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