On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Joachim Dreimann < [email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to make it easier to those interested in Bloodhound to get > involved. > Specifically I would like to add opt-in checkboxes for people to sign up to > dev@ or user@ at the point of registering and account on > i.a.o/bloodhound[1]. > > This should be possible through us sending a request to be added on their > behalf using the "Subscribe alternate address" mechanism[2]: > dev-subscribe-*username=host.tld*@bloodhound.apache.org > Here username=host.tld represents the email address [email protected]. > > The user would of course still have to confirm it, but I believe this will > help get people signing up by letting them know about our mailing list at a > key point and taking some work off them. > > What do you think? Any practical steps that could help us implement this? > > Cheers, > Joe > > > [1] http://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/register > [2] http://www.niso.org/khelp/kmlm/user_help/html/email_commands.html It sounds like a good idea to me. It should be fairly easy to implement using the AccountManager API, specifically `IAccountRegistrationInspector`. I think it would be fairly easy to write a plugin that adds the additional fields to the registration form and handles sending the email. I'd be happy to do some further testing to confirm that this is possible. - Ryan
