On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Rob Weir <robweir@apache.org> wrote:
>> Please not, there are not technical volunteers for fulfilling that
>> task. Terry E, who left the project, has mentioned this might be very
>> difficult or even impossible. This is a wish, but there is need of
>> somebody who does it.
>>
>
> But that is what the proposal on the wiki says. The wiki has a
> "technical changes" section in the proposal that states:
>
> "A new public board "site governance" is established to discuss forum
> related tasks. The messages are sent automatically to a readonly
> mailinglist name "forum-sitegovernance@"
>
> A new private board "private xxx" is established to discuss sensitive
> tasks, like for example user behavior. The messages are sent
> automatically to a privately archived mailing list (allowing Apache
> Members and Apache OpenOffice PPMC members to view) with a specific
> tag"
>
> Is this an error? Should that section of the proposal be removed?
>
> If it is removed, then what are we doing about audit trails, and such?
> Does phpBB give us everything we need without having it echoed to a
> private list? I'm fine with that. But I think it is important that
> the proposal cover how the forums will satisfy that important
> requirement.
Many BB systems allow updates to threads to be sent to a participant's
email address. Perhaps a pseudouser can be set up whose email address
is a private ASF list, so that forum posts are archived there...?
Don
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