Re: proposal: address@hidden list/alias

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Mittwoch, dem 01.06.2022 um 22:17 +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
> Hi,
> 
> to help new contributors get their first contribution into Guix I
> think it would be good to do this:
> 
> 1. create a new private mailing list or mailing alias
> guix-mentors@gnu.org
> 
> 2. ask for experienced Guix contributors who are committed to helping
> new contributors to subscribe to the list
> 
> 3. update the Contributing section in the manual (and the website) to
> suggest Cc-ing guix-mentors@gnu.org for a first contribution.
> 
> 4. have subscribers to guix-mentors@gnu.org “claim” a contribution
> within 48 hours, to avoid dilution of responsibilit.  Every
> contribution must be acknowledged.
> 
> [...]
> 
> What do you think about this?
As a specific measure against potential abuse as well as a way of
helping out newcomers, what if instead of making new contributors CC
guix-mentors, we made it so that forwarding to guix-mentors is handled
by the spam filter?  That is once it's established that a new
contribution is actually a contribution, the patch is forwarded
separately to guix-mentors (along with reply-to: for the original bug
etc. set up in a way that's useful to mentors), claiming takes place,
and so on.

Cheers