A paucity of moderators for Subversion lists.

[kf...@collab.net]

I noticed this as I was removing myself as moderator from all
Subversion lists, since I'll be traveling:

Some of the Subversion mailing lists don't have enough moderators.
For example, on at least a couple, the only moderators were
brian@collab.net and sussman@collab.net.  The latter is an obsolete
address, and the former... Well, Brian's the CTO of CollabNet, and he
travels a lot.  I'm sure he moderates when he can, but it wouldn't
make sense for the entire burden for any list to be on his shoulders.

So, if some people could please look at lists and add themselves as
moderators, that would be a Good Thing.  Maybe post when you so, so
others can coordinate with you.

Note that this is entirely about spam prevention.  All the Subversion
lists are about 95% spam.  You don't see it only because the
moderators don't let it through.

Thanks,
-Karl

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Re: A paucity of moderators for Subversion lists.

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@collab.net>]

I don't think people can add themselves as moderators, only project admin 
can add them through the web UI.  Since Karl's about to be offline for 
awhile, I'd be happy to handle adding moderators, so if you want to 
volunteer let me know.  I'll let the other moderators know at the same 
time.

Also, it's not exactly elegant when lists have more than one moderator, 
because one moderator doesn't know if the other has acted upon a given 
message.  It's not harmful - if someone approves a message the other has 
deleted or not read the notice for (you don't have to explicitly 
disapprove messages, they time out after ten days), it goes through, and 
if both approve, the first one succeeded and the other just is ignored. 
It's nice to have some overlap if people don't mind duplicating the effort 
I guess, or you could do explicit hand-offs I guess.

 	Brian

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Some of the Subversion mailing lists don't have enough moderators.
> For example, on at least a couple, the only moderators were
> brian@collab.net and sussman@collab.net.  The latter is an obsolete
> address, and the former... Well, Brian's the CTO of CollabNet, and he
> travels a lot.  I'm sure he moderates when he can, but it wouldn't
> make sense for the entire burden for any list to be on his shoulders.
>
> So, if some people could please look at lists and add themselves as
> moderators, that would be a Good Thing.  Maybe post when you so, so
> others can coordinate with you.
>
> Note that this is entirely about spam prevention.  All the Subversion
> lists are about 95% spam.  You don't see it only because the
> moderators don't let it through.
>
> Thanks,
> -Karl
>
>

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Re: A paucity of moderators for Subversion lists.

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@collab.net>]

I don't think people can add themselves as moderators, only project admin 
can add them through the web UI.  Since Karl's about to be offline for 
awhile, I'd be happy to handle adding moderators, so if you want to 
volunteer let me know.  I'll let the other moderators know at the same 
time.

Also, it's not exactly elegant when lists have more than one moderator, 
because one moderator doesn't know if the other has acted upon a given 
message.  It's not harmful - if someone approves a message the other has 
deleted or not read the notice for (you don't have to explicitly 
disapprove messages, they time out after ten days), it goes through, and 
if both approve, the first one succeeded and the other just is ignored. 
It's nice to have some overlap if people don't mind duplicating the effort 
I guess, or you could do explicit hand-offs I guess.

 	Brian

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Some of the Subversion mailing lists don't have enough moderators.
> For example, on at least a couple, the only moderators were
> brian@collab.net and sussman@collab.net.  The latter is an obsolete
> address, and the former... Well, Brian's the CTO of CollabNet, and he
> travels a lot.  I'm sure he moderates when he can, but it wouldn't
> make sense for the entire burden for any list to be on his shoulders.
>
> So, if some people could please look at lists and add themselves as
> moderators, that would be a Good Thing.  Maybe post when you so, so
> others can coordinate with you.
>
> Note that this is entirely about spam prevention.  All the Subversion
> lists are about 95% spam.  You don't see it only because the
> moderators don't let it through.
>
> Thanks,
> -Karl
>
>

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