> In my opinion, any PMC member should be allowed to use the Twitter account > without any other checks, balances, or friction.
I agree with this. Without objections, then, I would say we make sure as many PMC members have access to the account as have interest. I do not think I am empowered to grant access (Jacques may be the only one since he created the account initially) On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 4:44 PM Julian Hyde <jhyde.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In my opinion, any PMC member should be allowed to use the Twitter account > without any other checks, balances, or friction. They know that they are > speaking for the project, and only for the project. They are PMC members so > we trust them to do the right thing. > > If committers and other non-PMC community members would like to suggest a > tweet then a GitHub PR is a reasonable process. But unlike a code change, it > needs to be approved by a PMC member. > > Quite frankly the easiest process for non-PMC members is just to tweet as > yourself (or your company, or project) and mention @ApacheArrow. A PMC member > will retweet or quote tweet if it deserves wider circulation. > > Julian > > > > > On Feb 1, 2022, at 11:00 AM, QP Hou <q...@scribd.com.INVALID> wrote: > > > > To be clear I haven't used that twitter-together action myself, was > > just using it as an example for how such a workflow could be set up. I > > imagine it won't be too much work for us to write our own action if > > needed. > > > > Thanks, > > QP Hou > > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 5:31 AM Neal Richardson > > <neal.p.richard...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I like the idea too. If we were to use the github action to send tweets, we > >> would need to get INFRA to add it to the allowlist since they restrict > >> which actions we can use. I don't think it's a blocker, just would add some > >> extra time in the process of getting it set up. > >> > >> Neal > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 5:25 AM Alessandro Molina < > >> alessan...@ursacomputing.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I never used https://github.com/gr2m/twitter-together previously, in the > >>> past I used Hootsuite to set up approval workflows, but I think that the > >>> idea of setting up a workflow through github PRs looks like a good idea. > >>> It > >>> would be able to leverage committer/pmc membership to merge the PRs and > >>> would allow anyone to contribute with social media content. > >>> > >>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 12:43 AM QP Hou <q...@scribd.com.invalid> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I don't know how other projects manage this, but one solution we could > >>>> evaluate is using github PRs to manage the twitter account. For > >>>> example, here is a github action that does exactly this > >>>> https://github.com/gr2m/twitter-together. > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 3:14 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> hi all, > >>>>> > >>>>> The project is approaching it's 6th birthday and we have come a long > >>> way! > >>>>> > >>>>> We have a relatively seldom-used Twitter handle > >>>>> twitter.com/ApacheArrow and only a handful of people in the community > >>>>> have access to it. I know that Jacques and I do, but I am not sure who > >>>>> else. > >>>>> > >>>>> I wanted to discuss a few things: > >>>>> > >>>>> * Giving more committers/PMC members access to the Twitter handle — I > >>>>> think clearly there should be more people with access (I tweet through > >>>>> TweetDeck, e.g. I just posted about a newly posted blog post) > >>>>> * Consider if there are any other social media channels where we might > >>>>> want to promote Arrow content > >>>>> * Discuss a social media policy more broadly for the project > >>>>> > >>>>> On the latter point, my feelings are: > >>>>> > >>>>> * Promote content and usage of Apache Arrow, but not companies or > >>>>> products (Apache projects are independent) > >>>>> * Provide a way for the community to submit ideas/materials for social > >>>> media > >>>>> > >>>>> Does anyone know if other ASF projects have policies/conventions about > >>>>> how they decide how to use their social media properties to best serve > >>>>> the community? > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks, > >>>>> Wes > >>>> > >>> >
