How Do I Volunteer for a To Do list item?
I've been prowling around the site and couldn't help notice that one of my pet peeves is on the to-do list -- documentation! I'm a former professional author and editor who's currently in the process of switching careers to become an information technology specialist, so I'd be interested in helping to write the user, list owner, and site owner files.
Whom should I contact in order to find out the status of these files?
One suggestion, Mailman should develop a set of moderator features (with documentation), so that routine list services can be handed off to their moderators, who have a moderator password that lets them do certain things but not others. This would enable the list administrator to NOT receive those pesky un/subscribe and other routine notices that the moderator handles.
I've had ten years experience as a member of email lists, and have spent about five years administering Majordomo lists, and have recently been moved over to Mailman. I've come around to where I slightly prefer Mailman over Majordomo, but there are some Majordomo features that I miss. And lately, with all the broken Mailman software, my affection for Mailman is somewhat strained. Through all of this I've been wishing for a help file. So, on the principle that if you want something done, you have to do it yourself, I'm volunteering.
Let me know if I can be of service.
Thanks
Gary Bowen
Listwrangler listwrangler@iximd.com
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"L" == Listwrangler <listwrangler@iximd.com> writes:
L> I'm a former professional author and editor who's currently in
L> the process of switching careers to become an information
L> technology specialist, so I'd be interested in helping to write
L> the user, list owner, and site owner files.
L> Whom should I contact in order to find out the status of these
L> files?We'd love it if you'd help out with the documentation (an admitted weakness). Currently this effort is being carried out on the mailman-developers@python.org list. For now I suggest you check those archives and subscribe to that list.
L> One suggestion, Mailman should develop a set of moderator
L> features (with documentation), so that routine list services
L> can be handed off to their moderators, who have a moderator
L> password that lets them do certain things but not others. This
L> would enable the list administrator to NOT receive those pesky
L> un/subscribe and other routine notices that the moderator
L> handles.Separating the moderator role from the list admin role is definitely on our todo list.
L> I've had ten years experience as a member of email lists, and
L> have spent about five years administering Majordomo lists, and
L> have recently been moved over to Mailman. I've come around to
L> where I slightly prefer Mailman over Majordomo, but there are
L> some Majordomo features that I miss. And lately, with all the
L> broken Mailman software, my affection for Mailman is somewhat
L> strained. Through all of this I've been wishing for a help
L> file. So, on the principle that if you want something done,
L> you have to do it yourself, I'm volunteering.Great! We need volunteers to help out. What MD features are you particularly missing? What is broken in MM for you?
-Barry
"L" == Listwrangler <listwrangler@iximd.com> writes:
L> I'm a former professional author and editor who's currently in
L> the process of switching careers to become an information
L> technology specialist, so I'd be interested in helping to write
L> the user, list owner, and site owner files.
L> Whom should I contact in order to find out the status of these
L> files?We'd love it if you'd help out with the documentation (an admitted weakness). Currently this effort is being carried out on the mailman-developers@python.org list. For now I suggest you check those archives and subscribe to that list.
L> One suggestion, Mailman should develop a set of moderator
L> features (with documentation), so that routine list services
L> can be handed off to their moderators, who have a moderator
L> password that lets them do certain things but not others. This
L> would enable the list administrator to NOT receive those pesky
L> un/subscribe and other routine notices that the moderator
L> handles.Separating the moderator role from the list admin role is definitely on our todo list.
L> I've had ten years experience as a member of email lists, and
L> have spent about five years administering Majordomo lists, and
L> have recently been moved over to Mailman. I've come around to
L> where I slightly prefer Mailman over Majordomo, but there are
L> some Majordomo features that I miss. And lately, with all the
L> broken Mailman software, my affection for Mailman is somewhat
L> strained. Through all of this I've been wishing for a help
L> file. So, on the principle that if you want something done,
L> you have to do it yourself, I'm volunteering.Great! We need volunteers to help out. What MD features are you particularly missing? What is broken in MM for you?
-Barry
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