On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Arno Töll wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > On 18.01.2012 08:40, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Dear DSA, do you think it's possible to have a CNAME mentors.debian.org >> pointing to mentors.debian.net? It's currently not hosted on a .d.o >> machine but AIUI the mentors.debian.net admins are interested to move it >> to DSA-managed host at some point. > > as a maintainer of mentors.d.n I can confirm our interest to make > mentors an official Debian service at some point. However, we are not in > a hurry to do so immediately and I believe that's something which needs > consensus among developers before we can seriously consider that.
What consensus (and from whom) is required here? If I interpret things correctly, the DSA team [0] is the group that need to make the call. So lets start that discussion with them (well its already started with the CC's). > Moreover, we're lacking Debian Developers interested to join our team > which is sort of a prerequisite to integrate a team into Debian's > organizational structure. I am not a DD quite yet, but I'm finishing the NM process right now, and as soon as I'm done, I will be very happy to join this team. I would hope there are quite a few other existing DDs willing to be officially part of the team as well. Is there a list of the current official members? Perhaps we send a message to -devel looking for additional volunteers? For now, who on this list would want to be a part of the official team? Anyway, I think if we can get people behind this, we would want to make it happen quickly, then the mentors.debian.org psuedo-package would be available, and we could straightforwardly implement the bug-based RFP process. As a small aside on the matter of naming, I would like to again try to suggest a more empowering term like "contributors" instead of "mentors". Going through this officialization process is an opportunity to rethink the message conveyed by the site name (since the domain name is changing anyway). The term "contributor" conveys a much more welcoming message as it says "this is the place where I can go to learn about start making contributions to debian", and "this is where we can go to help people become contributors". The "mentors" term far too heavily sways the discussion toward the needs/demands of the mentor. Anyway, a major danger of bike-shedding here, but words do have significant meaning, and we should put the critical thought in to getting it right. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANTw=MOMCb2Zxb3S7hubhXPO5cracGjAs9xxskYKMGNN0Vp=h...@mail.gmail.com