Proposal: Automate fedora-maintainers subscriptions

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:25:30AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 20.03.2007 10:06, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:01:06PM -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> >> fedora-maintainers is our by-invite-only distribution development 
> >> discussion list.  We keep it this way in an attempt to improve the 
> >> signal to noise ratio.
> >>
> >> Problem
> >> =======
> >> fedora-maintainers does not automatically grow as new, potentially 
> >> useful maintainers join the project.  Currently new members are invited 
> >> only if someone does it manually, or if someone approves a subscription 
> >> request.
> >>
> >> Proposal
> >> ========
> >> If cvsextras access is sponsored, FAS runs a script that logs into the 
> >> mailman admin page and sends an Invite to the e-mail address on the FAS 
> >> account.
> > 
> > Isn't subscription to fedora-maintainers at redhat.com even required for
> > contributors?
> 
> Strongly suggested, but not required afaik.

I thought fedora-maintainers was mandatory like the commits list. I
was always told so and

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join#head-84e3ccb7c5b1f47aab9c6cee5439ae12010c8678

lists subscribing to these two list (and also still the readonly list
by cut&paste error I suppose) as part of the joining procedure.

> > So maybe the script could go ahead and subscribe instead of invite
> > to shorten the procedure?
> 
> I suppose all those people that use a different addresses for mailing
> lists and the accounts system would be happy about such a move, as they
> might be subscribed two times to this list afterwards :-)

The invite would go to the same email address, anyway, and by
definition these people cannot have been on the list previously.

If having different email addresses for FAS, bugzilla, mailing lists
is really needed, then the FAS needs to carry these, too. I think it
already caters for the bugzilla address because 8 people didn't want
to set them equal to the FAS account ...
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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