[gopher] Gopher Community Infrastructure...

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Christoph Lohmann <20h at r-36.net> wrote:

> Greetings comrades.
>
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:23:23 +0200 "barana ." <barana24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > The current ml works.What's wrong with persisting with John till we get a response
> and hand him a petition or a group request to add some more admins?
>
> Here is the quote from IRC:
>
> 10:19:02  __20h__ | Good day.
> 10:19:29  __20h__ | Is this the right IRC channel for questions about mailinglists on lists.alioth.debian.org?
> 10:19:38  __20h__ | I couldn't find any other irc channel fitting.
> 10:20:26 formorer | you can ask.
> 10:20:44  __20h__ | I am talking about https://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project
> 10:20:57  __20h__ | The admin of this ML, John Goerzen, has retired some years ago.
> 10:21:03  __20h__ | He sadly left the moderation bit on.
> 10:21:43  __20h__ | We now have the discussion on the ML how to solve this. The solution we came up with is the set the
>                   | admin list to the active users of the mailinglist and thus solve the moderation bit problem and
>                   | have backup in the future.
> 10:22:00  __20h__ | What would be the procedure to change those settings for the mailinglist?
> 10:22:23  __20h__ | You can see the discussion on the mailinglist, if you have access.
> 10:23:55 formorer | please define a/some new admin(s) for the project
> 10:24:18 formorer | then write a mail to formorer at debian.org, Cc to John Goerzen and ask for getting promoted to admin
>                   | for the project
> 10:24:43  __20h__ | formorer, thank you very much. I will do this.
> 10:25:31 formorer | after some grace period for John I will give them admin permissions and add them as mailinglist
>                   | admins
>
> tl;dr:  Get  a list of people we want to add as admins, send the list to
> formorer at debian.org, cc John Goerzen. If John does not respond in a giv?
> en time, the list of people will be setup as admins.
>
> So  I  guess  your objection, barana, will be solved by the way formorer
> wants to handle the issue.
>
> My proposal for the admin list is:
>
> Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
> Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com>
> "Bradley D. Thornton" <Bradley at NorthTech.US>
> Christoph Lohmann <20h at r-36.net>
>
> Anyone has objections?

Nice outreach Christoph.  I've no objections; if we can get the ML fixed
and active administration then that should solve the joining/posting
problems that brought all this to a head.  Just need to pick an admin (or
two) for which I think Cameron, Christoph and others have volunteered.

Jeff