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On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 20:44 +0200, Christian Hartmann wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> as some of you might already know we are working on a GLEP that is about |
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> the status of forums moderators and admins in the gentoo project. The |
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> main goal of the GLEP is to create a kind of quality assurance and to |
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> ensure that upcoming moderators know about the forums guidelines. |
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> Furthermore it should improve the information flow and improve the |
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> relation between forums and all the other projects. |
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As an ex site/forum admin (non Gentoo) I really have to ask what kind of |
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"quality assurance" you're dealing with here. |
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Are we talking profane language or just about moving a post of "how do I |
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install do xyz" to the right forum? |
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And I do have to ask - what information flow? At the most, Gentoo devs |
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read the forum and post there. After that, forum users have to contact |
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devs via IRC or b.g.o - at best both parties have to read the forums or |
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use IRC, at present people post bugs to get attention. I fail to see how |
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forums can improve the "information flow" when a vast proportion of devs |
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don't even read the forums. I do, but after a year and a bit of being on |
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the forums I think I can safely say that most devs involved with |
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networking don't post in the network forum or read it. |
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> I'm now sending this to you for further discussion. It has already been |
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> discussed with all moderators and site admins as well as with devrel and |
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> the glep guys. Devrel now agreed on the terms and conditions described |
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> in the GLEP considering the process of aquiring new moderators as |
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> developers. |
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> The newest revision of the GLEP can always be found here: |
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> http://download.iansview.com/gentoo/docs/glep-38/glep-0038.txt |
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After reading that, I get the impression that forum admins/mods want |
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better recognition within the Gentoo realm. I would argue that they are |
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the most visible to start with. Heck, I first checked out the forums, |
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downloaded the CD, tried it out, discovered that wireless networking |
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sucked and the rest as they say is history. |
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Maybe I'm getting old or summat, but isn't this more of a "Here's how we |
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want to recruit for the forums mods" proposal rather than a "Gentoo |
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Linux Enhancement Proposal"? |
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> Feedback is highly appreciated. |
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Cool - here's the feedback in a nutshell. |
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Thumbs up aside from once thing - why the need for a GLEP? |
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Roy |
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