Are most requesters already committers, or no? If so, then *cough* whimsy tool *cough*. That's a place we can create simple AUTH'd request tools that channelize things; even as a front end, it would ensure the requests have a specific which-wiki, who is the username, etc. that you don't always get from emails.
Just a crazy idea I can't help with yet. But agree: finding ways to reduce non-interesting threads here would help people follow the interesting discussions or votes. - Shane Benjamin Young wrote on 10/5/16 10:22 AM: > The incubator list is pretty popular. ;) Not less so these days with > the NetBeans discussions, etc. > > I’d like to propose (fwiw) that a mailing list be setup to ask for > wiki access (perhaps wiki@incubator.a.o) and that it be used > primarily for that purpose. If possible, the list could be setup to > receive emails from anyone (without prior subscription) to avoid the > need to “hang around” on that list if all you needed was to make an > edit somewhere. > > Alternatively, perhaps a web form could be setup to mail the IPMC > directly. > > Or, the much harder alternative, moving to Confluence, which I think > avoids this request need / has it’s own more automated way of > handling such things (maybe). > > The hope is just to reduce the signal to noise ratio here—which is > already quite high due to so many projects talking in one general > space. > > Thanks for considering this idea! Benjamin > > -- http://bigbluehat.com/ http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
